Sustainable energy can be extracted from biomaterials, including food waste, crops, animal and agricultural waste, wastewater, and wood.

The U.S. has the potential to produce 1 billion dry tons of non-food biomass resources annually by 2040, but only if funding can keep up with innovation.

As energy utilities move away from fossil fuels to meet international emission reduction commitments, all sources of renewable energy resources have experienced considerable growth. While solar photovoltaics and wind turbines are often the first technologies that come to mind, the International Energy Agency predicts bioenergy will contribute the most renewable production over the next five years and account for more than 30% of growth.

Enviva is the world’s largest producer of wood pellets, offering electric utilities a fuel to replace coal, and enabling them to generate power without interruption while reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. They produce over 3 million metric tonnes of wood pellets annually, using sustainable practices that protect the southern forests of the U.S.

Modern woody biomass energy has been around for more than 100 years, yet the global wood-pellet biomass electric industry has only started growing significantly and receiving a lot of attention in the last decade . The global wood-pellet market, for both thermal and electricity generation, is projected to grow at a rate of 8.6% CAGR for the next 4 years, largely as a result of European legislation, subsidies, global certification programs, and demand for clean renewable energy.