ABSTRACT
The development of biomass energy is much less successful than most other renewable energy resources in China. In 2008, the Ministry of Finance started to provide subsidies to biomass pellet fuel projects. In 2015, the subsidy scheme was officially abolished. Because the supply of biomass pellet fuels is not always reliable and the biomass fuels are more expensive than coal, many biomass power generators use coal as supplement or replacement, while selling electricity as renewable to take advantage of the higher feed-in tariffs. Biogas is the most successful part of biomass energy in China. Since the early 2000s, the central government has been providing financial supports to biogas projects as a part of its rural development program. In the 10th Five-Year Plan, the Chinese government started to develop bio-ethanol fuel. Since the early 2000s, many Chinese cities have been building garbage incinerators, and many of them are equipped with power generators to utilize the heat.
