Denali Biomass, Inc.
Denali Biomass, with offices in Baxter, MN and Aberdeen, SD, is a sister company to Denali Energy, Inc. Denali Energy, Inc. focuses on the development of renewable energy, primarily wind farms and biomass projects in the Upper Midwest.
At Denali Biomass, we provide feasibility studies as well as project planning and development.
Biomass Facts
1. Biomass is the second-most utilized renewable energy resource in the United Stated in terms of electricity generation, currently providing the amount of electricity used by 4 million average U.S. homes combined, or the entire state of Colorado. This amount of electricity generation requires about 60 million tons of biomass per year.
2. Biomass is any sort of vegetation including agricultural and forest residues, and liquid transportation fuels such as ethanol and biodiesel derived primarily from agricultural crops, and industrial wastes. Biomass power is the use of biomass feedstocks (forest residues, mill residues, agricultural residues, urban wood wastes, and dedicated energy crops) instead of the usual fossil fuels (natural gas or coal) to produce electricity.
3. Cellulose biomass will begin to replace corn as the primary base in ethanol industry-wide by 2012. This timing will be dependent upon the planting of hundreds of millions of acres of dedicated energy crops. Also by 2012, 500 to 1,000 new biofuel plants will need to be built - cellulose biomass cannot travel much further than 50 miles without energy loss. In the future, fast-growing energy crops may become the biomass fuel of choice.
