New Regulations for Biomass and Other Alternatative Fuels

EPA completed new rules that changed the way they look at "nontraditional" fuels. Using these alternative fuels to generate energy makes a facility subject to emission limits and rules regulation boilers.

In December U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) completed new rules that changed the way they look at`nontraditional" fuels. Materials that can meet the newly revised standards are defined as fuels under the regulations. Using these alternative fuels to generate energy makes a facility subject to emission limits and rules regulating boilers, which are generally less onerous than rules regulating incinerators. Materials that don`t meet thefuel definition can still be used to generate energy, but combustion of these materials is treated as incineration.