With an exclusive focus on biomass utilization in the Northeast – from Maryland to Maine – the Northeast BIOMASS Conference & Expo is a dynamic regional offshoot of Biomass Magazine’s International BIOMASS Conference & Expo, the largest event of it’s kind in the world.

Taking place in Boston, Massachusetts, August 4-6, 2010, the Northeast BIOMASS Conference & Expo will connect the area’s current and future producers of biomass-derived electricity, industrial heat and power, and advanced biofuels, with waste generators, aggregators, growers, municipal leaders, utility executives, technology providers, equipment manufacturers, investors and policy makers. The Northeast U.S. has vast forestry, agricultural and municipal biomass resources, and is home to hundreds of technologically progressive biomass power, biofuels and biomass thermal energy projects. This population-dense region plays host to several world-class research institutions engaged in the development, scale-up and commercialization of next-generation bioenergy technologies. The sustainable utilization of forestry and wood processing residues — from manufacturing wood pellets in Maine and New York to converting pulp and paper mills to next-generation biorefineries in New Hampshire and Vermont — is only the beginning. With the first mandatory, market-based effort in the United States to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the region’s utilities are expected to employ biomass cogeneration, gasification and advanced combustion projects in unprecedented numbers, while also supporting projects that generate electricity from on-farm methane, municipal biosolids and landfill gas. Likewise, countless research institutions are partnering with private industry in the region to develop next-generation biofuels such as cellulosic ethanol.

The Northeast BIOMASS Conference & Expo program will include more than 60 speakers, including technical presentations on topics ranging from anaerobic digestion and gasification to combined heat and power and large-scale biomass combustion, within the structured framework of general session panels and four customized tracks:

TRACK 1: Electricity Generation
TRACK 2: Industrial Process Heat and Power
TRACK 3: Biorefining
TRACK 4: Biomass Project Development and Finance

The Northeast BIOMASS Conference & Expo is designed to help you – as a biomass industry stakeholder – identify and evaluate solutions that fit your operation. It's time to improve your operational efficiencies and tap into the revenue generating potential of sustainable biomass resources in the region.

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