Malaysia’s state palm oil agency to buy biomass for power

File - In this Nov. 28, 2006 file photo, a lorry drives past a palm oil plantation in Sepang, outskirt of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.The palm oil industry loves to tout its green credentials, mostly on the back of its biofuels burning cleaner than gasoline. But the industry struggled at a biofuels conference Wednesday, May 13, 2009 to defend itself amid recent studies by scientists showing that a majority of palm oil plantations started in Indonesia and Malaysia in the past two decades replaced tropical forests that were destroyed to make way for planting. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

POIC to buy oil palm-based biomass to generate electricity

Malaysia’s Palm Oil Industrial Cluster (POIC) in Sabah state has affirmed its plans to purchase oil palm-based biomass from millers for power generation, a local government official says.

Raymond Tan, minister of industrial development, says POIC was granted financial assistance from the state government.

“The government is convinced that with the right technology, biomass such as empty fruit bunches can be used as one of the fuel sources to generate electricity for both industrial and domestic use,” Tan says.

He points out that the initiative will not coerce people to sell biomass to POIC, neither will it stop anyone else from buying the organic wastes.

As much as six million tonnes of biomass could have been generated from all the…

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