Bioenergy is renewable energy made available from materials derived from biological Biomass is any organic material which has stored sunlight in the form of chemical As a fuel it may include wood, wood waste, straw, manure, sugarcane, and many other byproducts from a variety of agricultural By 2010, there was 35GW of globally installed bioenergy capacity for electricity generation, of which 7GW was in the US[1]In its most narrow sense it is a synonym to biofuel, which is fuel derived from biological In its broader sense it includes biomass, the biological material used as a biofuel, as well as the social, economic, scientific and technical fields associated with using biological sources for This is a common misconception, as bioenergy is the energy extracted from the biomass, as the biomass is the fuel and the bioenergy is the energy contained in the fuel