The idea of growing matter to produce fuel has been controversial over the last few years. In the worst cases, inappropriate crops have been grown that are energy intensive and have even forced the local market price of food up. Biomass energy has to be managed very carefully to make sure it is beneficial and sustainable, and does not create social issues in an attempt to fix environmental ones. For example, growing food crops, transporting biomass over long distances to feed power stations can undo much of the good that the plants create. With the right management however, biomass can be a sustainable and people friendly fuel.

This is why we have developed a biogeneration procurement policy. Our policy defines what we believe is sustainable when it comes to sourcing and transporting biofuels and producing biogeneration. To assess a biogenerators sustainability, we require them to complete an application and based on the information they provide, we decide if we can work with them.

Because of the issues of material demand, biomass energy is well suited to small scale projects that can feed on waste from a local community.  Waste is the second largest source of biomass energy.