{"id":16555,"date":"2013-04-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20130406-01n"},"modified":"2013-04-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T22:00:00","slug":"wood-the-fuel-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wood-the-fuel-of-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Wood: The fuel of the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Which source of renewable energy is most important to the European Union? Solar power, perhaps? (Europe has three-quarters of the world\u2019s total installed capacity of solar photovoltaic energy.) Or wind? (Germany trebled its wind-power capacity in the past decade.) The answer is neither. By far the largest so-called renewable fuel used in Europe is wood.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In its various forms, from sticks to pellets to sawdust, wood (or to use its fashionable name, biomass) accounts for about half of Europe\u2019s renewable-energy consumption. In some countries, such as Poland and Finland, wood meets more than 80% of renewable-energy demand. Even in Germany, home of the &#8220;Energiewende&#8221; (energy transformation) which has poured huge subsidies into wind and solar power, 38% of non-fossil fuel consumption comes from the stuff.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230; Full text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/business\/21575771-environmental-lunacy-europe-fuel-future\" >www.economist.com\/news\/business\/21575771-environmental-lunacy-europe-fuel-future<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: wood energy, power companies, renewable sources, solar, co-firing, International Wood Markets Group, demand, Argus Biomass Markets, Poyry<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Which source of renewable energy is most important to the European Union? Solar power, perhaps? (Europe has three-quarters of the world&rsquo;s total installed capacity of<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[2317,3322],"class_list":["post-16555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-european-commission","supplier-princeton-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16555"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=16555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}