Wood Waste for Renewable Energy

This website was established as part of a project funded by the Forest and Wood Products Research and Development Corporation and the Government of Australia (through the Renewable Energy Industry Development (REID-7) Program) to investigate the potential for using wood waste to produce renewable energy.

This website contains information on the potential for using wood waste to produce renewable energy. It outlines the global initiatives for supporting the use of wood waste, and to outline the energy conversion technologies that could be adopted by the forest and timber industry.

In response to questions raised by energy companies and the forestry and timber industry, information is provided under these seven topics:

What is bioenergy?

Forest management and sustainability

Markets, regulations and the electricity grid

Energy conversion technologies

Wood waste resources and project economics

Social and environmental benefits of bioenergy project development

Links and additional reference materials

Key Reports

The following four reports provide extensive information on the use of wood waste for renewable energy:

Report 1 - Global and Australian initiatives and impediments to the production of renewable energy from wood in Australia

Report 2 - The potential for wood waste in a sustainable and competitive Australian renewable energy industry

Report 3 - Potential wood flows, technical and scale issues, and identification of sustainable management

Report 4 - Converting wood waste into renewable energy

What's new?

After the report Global and Australian initiatives and impediments to adoption in Australia was completed, the federal Government outlined a number of improvements to the national renewable energy policy and programs. The Renewable Energy Update provides a summary of the recently announced policy program, regulation and legislative changes that may impact on the use of wood waste for producing renewable energy.

This website was established as part of a project funded by the Forest and Wood Products Research and Development Corporation and Australian Government funding through the Australian Greenhouse Office in the Department of Environment and Heritage