Concerns grow over ‘green’ biomass power in Japan after spate of accidents

For the past decade, Japan has been expanding the use of woody biomass for power generation to replace or be mixed and burned with coal. The country is now the second-largest wood pellet consumer in the world after the U.K. But there are concerns that burning wood pellets or palm kernel shells to generate electricity [...]
2026-08-17 15:45:17