As a local and sustainable source of energy, wood can be used as a fuel for heat generating plants. The wood energy sector also offers a solution for forestry care and renewal that has the added benefit of generating local jobs.

In France, which has the third-largest area of forests in the entire European Union, wood could easily be used as a renewable source of energy. It is the biomass resource with the longest history of providing energy. ENGIE leads Europe in this sector, and has developed a unique level of expertise in improving the wood combustion over a period of more than 10 years.

Wood: a sustainable energy source for district heating networks

Wood is used as a fuel in heat generating plants to heat the water before it is injected into a district heating network. Burning wood has the major benefit of delivering a neutral carbon balance, because the quantity of CO2 produced is equivalent to that absorbed during photosynthesis and is reused by the growth process of newly planted trees. The resulting ash can itself be recycled, predominantly for agricultural purposes.

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