Last month, Nippon Paper Industries announced that the in-situ biomass co-fired power plant had been put into use at its coil factory.
Nippon Paper Group held a completion ceremony for the new factory on March 16. The factory was operational on March 1.
According to the statement, the facility 'permits' the use of woody biomass for co-firing. The company has contributed to the protection of domestic forests by using unused wood materials mainly from the northeastern regions of Japan (including Miyagi Prefecture).
In addition to locally sourced biomass, Nippon Paper Group will purchase wood pellets from Asia and North America to increase the biomass co-firing ratio at the Ishinomaki Hibarino power plant.
Japan's wood pellet market continues to expand
The newly established Nippon Paper Group Biomass Power Plant showed signs of increasing growth, indicating that Japan and South Korea will become key markets for woody biomass in the coming years.
In this issue of 'Bioenergy Insight', Racheal Levinson, biomass research manager at Hawkins Wright wrote: 'In addition to Europe, Asia is becoming more attractive due to the potential of Japan and South Korea's development. Wood pellets market. '
'With the support of Japan's on-grid tariff subsidy program, the country is building a large number of biomass projects. The fuel composition of all planned projects is not yet known, and there is no progress, but it is the largest importer of wood chips in the pulp and paper industry. First, Japan will increase sawdust for energy production.
