CBEA provides the following resources for your use and better understanding of the California and national biomass power industries. If you have additional questions or are looking for something in particular, please contact CBEA today.
PowerPoint Presentations
Biomass Power: Essential for California
Research Reports on Biomass Benefits
The Environmental Costs and Benefits of Biomass Energy Use in California
The Value of the Benefits of U.S. Biomass Power
Biomass Energy Production in California: The Case for a Biomass Policy Initiative
Clean and Diversified Energy Initiative Biomass Task Force Report
Bioenergy and Greenhouse Gases
Biomass to Energy: Forest Management for Wildfire Reduction, Energy Production, and Other Benefits
Other Helpful Links
State of California Tree Mortality Task Force
Biomass Energy in California (California Energy Commission)
Biopower Basics (US Department of Energy)
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Emissions Benefit from Firing Orchard Residue at Delano Energy Facility
Multimedia
What’s Happening in our Forest?: An animated short by Aspen Center for Environmental Studies exploring how forests affect, and are affected by, the forces around them
Placer County Air Pollution Control District has produced a video that provides an overview of discussions, observations and policy recommendations related to California forests as follow-up to the three fuels treatment/forest health workshops held at the UC Berkeley Blodgett Forest Research Station in 2012 and 2013. A unique and diverse set of resource professionals, researchers, state/federal agency representatives, utility representatives and elected officials were interviewed and have provided candid comments.