Ene rgy s our ce: Methane gas and POME generated by palm oil mills in the country can be converted into energy and fed into the national power grid, or to power the palm oil downstream industry.
How does the National Biomass Strategy 2020 fit into the palm oil industry?
Melssen: Oil palm biomass represents the majority of total biomass available in Malaysia. We have been looking at creating new industries from this resource. It is very diverse as you can produce animal feed, wood products, electricity, energy pellets, solid biofuels, liquid biofuels and ultimately, bio-based chemicals. More so, this is an entirely new industry not covered by just one ministry, but cuts across many different sectors, government ministries and agencies. That is why Agensi Inovasi got involved to develop a separate strategy altogether on how the owners of biomass can be involved in downstream value creation from their biomass, rather than just packaging the biomass and supplying it as a commodity. Hopefully, in the near future, the palm oil industry players are going to benefit from this new revenue stream derived from the biomass.
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