ABSTRACT
The use of biomass and biofuel renewable energy has been growing globally, despite a number of serious challenges. These challenges included low oil and fossil fuel prices plus policy uncertainty in some key markets. Biomass consumptions for renewable power generation and biofuel consumptions in the transport sector have both been forecasted to increase significantly in the coming years. Looking ahead to 2020, biomass renewable power generation is likely to rise to nearly 200 billion kWh, which will be over three times the 60 billion kWh capacity in 2008. However, there are also considerable environmental and supply chain challenges. Details of new biomass and biofuel developments will be discussed more in this chapter together with international references.
