Aside from the strong environmental argument, using bioenergy provides you with high efficiency energy production that is cost competitive to fossil fuels. In fact, depending on environmental incentives in your region, biofuel may even be more viable than most fossil fuels. Biomass is easy to handle, safe to transport and store, simple to use, and delivers comparable energy production to other fuels.

What makes Pacific BioEnergy wood pellets unique is our commitment to a high-quality product; using less moisture and zero additives to maximize the energy content stored within the wood. We use residual wood waste, primarily sawdust and planer shavings, from sawmills in the Prince George “fibre basin” in central British Columbia, Canada, as a raw material and process the fibre into pellets of uniform size, shape, moisture (3% to 5%), density (600 to 650 kg/m3) and energy content thereby creating a standardized “fluid” heating fuel.

Competitive Fuel Comparison

The energy content of our wood pellets is high at 18 Giga Joules (GJ) net per metric tonne (mT) and this is equal to approximately 3.4 barrels of crude oil, 17 mmBtu (million British thermal units) of natural gas, or 1,600 kilograms of coal.

 
 Handling, “Emissions” Scrubbing & Marginal Costs
 
 CO2 ‘Cost’
 
 Fuel Cost

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Per Giga Joule of output, wood pellet biomass is competitive with fossil fuels; however, fossil fuels have associated CO2 emissions costs that must also be considered. Product costs, emission costs, and in the case of coal, handling and emissions scrubbing costs must be factored into the final pricing analysis.

“The relative fossil fuel price comparisons shown are based on average market prices as determined from recent public market references.”


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