RISI and BTEC form partnership

Biomass Magazine June 2009
By Lisa Gibson
Posted May 28, 2009, at 12:06 p.m. CST

A new partnership between RISI and the Biomass Thermal Energy Council will allow BTEC members to contribute to RISI’s Wood Biomass Market Report, a comprehensive source of market information and wood biomass feedstock pricing in North America.

BTEC, which focuses on advancing the use of biomass for heat and other thermal energy applications, will form an advisory group of its members to help RISI, an information provider for the global forest products industry, determine what kind of issues should be addressed in the report. “We’re not looking to assert any sort of change [in the biomass industry],” said William Perritt, executive editor of the publication. “The purpose of the group is simply to help us understand what the information needs are in the wood pellet and wood energy sectors. We’re asking this group to tell us what they need; what they’re looking for.”

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