KO

Biomass

Wood Pellet

Indispensable Materials Part 13: What’s Fueling the Demand for Wood Pellet?

Trading & Investment / By

While the growth of wind and solar power often grab the headlines, there’s another renewable energy boom that’s emerging from forests and fueled by tree scraps: wood pellets. Made from recycled sawdust and lumber by-products, wood pellets are feeding the global demand to replace fossil fuel for electricity generation and heating. Driven by initiatives to …

Indispensable Materials Part 13: What’s Fueling the Demand for Wood Pellet? Read More »

Indispensable Materials Series Part 8: Palm Kernel Shells, a High-potential Renewable Energy Resource

Trading & Investment / By

A few years ago, people would not have believed if you had told them that palm kernel shells (PKS) would one day become a promising green energy resource and trade commodity. Indeed, merchants have been trading in palm oil since at least 3000 BCE, with most regarding PKS as a completely unimportant by-product. But as time …

Indispensable Materials Series Part 8: Palm Kernel Shells, a High-potential Renewable Energy Resource Read More »

A Peek into the Dawning Future of Biomass

Trading & Investment / By

It is a question that has confounded energy experts, global leaders and technological pioneers for years – in a world with finite resources, a fast-growing population and ever-rising energy needs, how will the future be powered? The International Energy Association says that the world consumed almost 40 percent more power in 2008 than it did …

A Peek into the Dawning Future of Biomass Read More »

Scroll to Top