Academic Exercise To Understand Biomass’ Place In SC’s Forest Products Industry

Solicit Reports, Studies and Presentations To

Establish Current State Of Knowledge

Develop A ‘Primer’, Present, Gather

Feedback & Develop Action Items

• EPA State BioEnergy Primer, September 2009• NC State Southern Forest Assessment Consortium ‘Bioenergy Demand and the Southern Forest Resource’,

October 2012• ‘Wood biomass industry emerging in S.C.,’ GSABusiness.com, July 2013• Traditional and New Demands on SC Softwoods from an Unbalanced Age Classification, Lupold Consulting,,

November 2011• ‘Enova Energy Planning Wood Pellet Plant in Edgefield County’, Columbia Regional Business Report, September

2012• ‘DOE Releases New ‘Billion Ton’ Study Highlighting Growth Opportunities In Bioenergy Resources’, U.S. Dept. of

Energy , Aug. 2012• ‘A National Wood To Energy Roadmap’, 25X25 Consensus Recommendations, September 2010• ‘Dutch Energy Exchange Opens Biomass Trading Market’, The Energy Daily, November 2011• South Carolina’s Forest:, U.S. Forest Service, Resource Bulletin, 2006• ‘The Business of Growing Eucalyptus for Biomass’, Biomass Magazine, 2010• ‘Growing Eucalyptus benthamii and Eucalyptus macarthurii in the Southeastern US’, Arborgen• Biomass: Comparison of definitions in Legislation Through the 112th Congress, Congressional Research Service,

November 2012• Climate Literacy: The Essential Principles for Climate Science”, Climate Change Science Program, March 2009• ‘Pellet Manufacturing: Energy and Carbon Balance’, Wood Bioenergy, June 2014• ‘In Michigan, debate over burning trees for energy’, Midwest Energy News, May 2014• State of Wyoming Governor’s Task Force on Forest: Final Report, January 2015• ‘Forest Sustainability In The Development of Bioenergy In the U.S.”, Pinchot Institute for Conservation, June 2010

Andrew Epting, program directorSCCEBA2519 Devine StreetColumbia, SC 29201andrew@scceba.org