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How much biomass energy is produced in India? 

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Among the biomass energy sources, fuel wood seems to be the most interesting because its share of the total energy production of Turkey is high at 14%.
India has a high potential for technically recoverable biomass, sufficient to meet part of its increasing energy needs, promote energy access in rural and remote areas, create economic opportunities at the national scale, and reduce indoor pollution.
When compared to current global energy use of biomass (about 50 EJ yr−1) and to the long-term theoretical trading potential between the major regions of the world (80–150 EJ yr−1), the development of international trade of biomass for energy purposes is in its initial stage, but it is expected to continue to grow rapidly.
Utilization of biomass may increase energy access in rural areas and long-term energy security in India.
This study contributes to constructing ecological energy production systems in the developing countries due to enhanced possibilities of biomass utilization.
India would seem to present a unique opportunity for large scale commercial exploitation of biomass gasification technology for meeting a variety of energy needs, particularly in the agricultural and rural sector.
The knowledge at hand suggests that biomass can become a sustainable and major contributor to the current energy demands, if research and development are encouraged in the field of thermochemical conversion for various agricultural biomass types.
electricity, gas, and petroleum products, suggest that biomass energy consumption will increase.
Therefore, in terms of biomass energy utilizations, India has demonstrated better performance than Indonesia.
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Maneesha Pande, Ashok N. Bhaskarwar 
01 Jan 2012
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Among these, biomass is an abundant, renewable, and relatively a clean energy resource which can be used for the generation of different forms of energy, viz.
The results indicated that biomass is not only the principal energy, accounting for 89 percent of demand, but also the main traded energy in the two time periods accounting for 56-59 percent of commercial demand.
The study of biomass energy is of particular importance for India in view of the extreme dependence of most rural areas on local energy resources.
With the estimated and predicted values, the generating power from the surplus biomass in India was significant and it will continue to be more effective in future.
Thus, this study shows the importance of biomass energy for sustainable development.
The results showed the there was a gradual and steady increase in the use biomass for energy generation in the study region.
Eventually, upon its output, this research asserts that biomass energy consumption can be an efficient policy tool for environmentally sustainable development in the US, and, that, hence, biomass production technologies and biomass consumption need to be promoted in other countries as well as in the US.