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| Renewable Energy Information: Biomass Energy What is Biomass Energy?  Biomass energy can be generated from any sort of vegetation — trees, grasses, and land and ocean plants. Biomass has a very high energy content and can come from construction waste, yard trimmings, mill wastes, logging and forest residues, agricultural residues, some kinds of municipal waste, and crops called energy crops that are grown specifically to provide energy.
If cultivated and harvested properly, biomass is a renewable resource that can be used to generate power on demand, with no net additional contribution to global air emissions. Biomass power is the second largest renewable energy source in the United States after hydropower, constituting about 50 percent of renewable energy consumption. |