While the global shift away from a fossil fuel-driven economy will necessarily involve major changes over the coming years, we at TRI have already been helping clients find the most logical, feasible and profitable paths that match their circumstances, to immediately benefit from bio-based energy.

The positive, promising and profitable vision of our bio-future is becoming clearer, but how exactly does an individual company get started, and still maintain control over the pace and path of its migration to a new energy structure?

There are as many specific pathways to our bio-based energy future as there are unique companies, but some of the scenarios that work for our clients include:

• Biomass conversion to a synthesis gas (“syngas”) which is then combusted in a boiler or lime kiln to reduce operational costs and displace fossil fuels
• Biomass conversion to syngas for combined heat and power (CHP) generation to reduce operational costs, displace fossil fuels, and create new revenue streams by selling excess green power to the local grid
• Biomass conversion to syngas for processing into a range of liquid transportation fuels and high-value chemicals

These broad scenarios are entirely customizable to clients’ specific circumstances and goals and afford an increasing range of both economic and environmental benefits.

The bio-based energy solutions can begin more conservatively and phase-in additional modules over time, capitalizing on and benefiting from the current infrastructure and resources so that your bio-future can happen sooner and more easily than you might think.

So, whether you are an existing facility with very near-term demands to reduce costs, reduce emissions from fossil fuels and increase profitability, or if you are exploring the wider range of benefits from a full-scale biorefinery in today’s energy market, the right pathway to achieving those goals is within your reach.