About Us
Michigan Biomass is a business coalition that advocates for the state’s domestic biomass energy industry. Its members operate power plants in the Lower Peninsula, mostly in the northern half close to the natural resources and forest products industries that produce their fuel.
Their job is recovering energy from locally generated, sustainably sourced organic material like residues from forest management, timber harvest and habitat maintenance and development. It is an integral part of Michigan’s long history with forestry and the companies that turn those resources into the materials and products that enrich our everyday lives, including electricity recovered from the tops, limbs and byproducts of forest products manufacturing.
Michigan is a leader in the U.S. in the generation of renewable electricity from wood fiber generated through sustainable forestry and that forest products industry that would otherwise enter the waste stream. Instead, biomass energy producers divert that material from the waste stream and use it as biofuel to generate around-the-clock renewable electricity.
Renewable electricity from forest management and a robust forest products industry
Domestic biomass power plants are scaled to match the supply of wood residues that can be sustainably sourced from within 50 miles, on average, which keeps the money they spend on fuel in the community. In doing so, biomass energy