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Japan’s biomass outlook

A new 87 page report Japan Biomass Outlook: Overview and Analysis in the Context of a Changing Power Market provides unique insight into the Japanese renewable energy sector. FutureMetrics has gathered a significant proportion of the data and information used in this report from Japanese language documents and spreadsheets; some of which have not been reported in English before. Source: Timberbiz

The Japanese biomass market has been growing and will continue to grow. This offers significant opportunities for suppliers and investors.

This report provides the background on the power generation market in general as well as the biomass power sector in particular.

Insights are also provided regarding other renewable energy generation in Japan to understand the developments that are impacting the wood pellet, palm kernel shell, and wood chip power generation sector; especially with regard to pricing.

Renewable energy generation sources are increasingly competing for grid capacity.

FutureMetrics’ forecasts on biomass demand as well as pricing as outlined in this report are based on various data along with our analysis of the ongoing power market reform and Japan’s government policies past, present and future.

For firms that are engaged in strategic planning for industrial wood pellet demand, this report’s analyses and forecasts regarding the evolution of the Japanese electricity markets and their current and future demand for biomass fuels, including wood pellets, are invaluable inputs to better decision making.