Ontario Green Energy Act Fires Up Biomass Development -- But Lacks Heat

Renewable Energy World
April 6, 2009
by Christopher Rees, Canadian Ecology Centre

Ontario's new Green Energy Act, released by the Provincial Government last month, has all the right tools to make renewable energy a much greater contributor to the province's energy mix, but there's one thing missing: heat.

The best use of biomass is for heating, not electricity production. To produce electricity using biomass and then using the electricity to produce heat or hot water is not an efficient process. Instead, it's better to produce the heat and hot water directly using biomass.

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