Our mission is to assist promising communities enhance their attractiveness to biorefinery investors and also to facilitate the efforts of investors seeking substantial and sustainable long term biomass sources.

The 16 billion gallon cellulosic ethanol mandate alone as stipulated by the in the Energy Security and Independence Act will require two hundred million tons of biomass from US fields and forests.  For illustrative purposes, assuming that an average cellulosic ethanol facility has an output of 60 million gallons, a total of over 250 communities throughout the USA will benefit from the added employment and also the income from biomass production in the next decade and beyond. Those communities that prepare for this opportunity and become biorefinery ready will be particularly attractive to investors.

To make substantial steps towards being biorefinery ready does not need to be expensive or complicated and Biomass4Energy has developed an approach to achieve the advantage which is appealing to investors. At the outset, existing important attributes of a community can be documented and presented in a convincing manner.   Generally the most important two issues that will attract an investor are: what is the long term opportunity for biomass and is the community enthusiastic and supportive about such a venture. The challenge is how to present these and other advantages that a community may have in a manner that is particularly convincing to a biorefinery investor.

What Biomass4Energy brings is the experience of the founder, Maurice Hladik who was biomass scout for most of the past decade in the US, Canada and Western Europe for a leading cellulosic ethanol technology investor.  He has spent time in many dozens of communities particularly in the US and has experienced a host of approaches from outstanding to less than appropriate. Maurice would welcome a preliminary telephone discussion with interested community leaders without obligation to determine if his skills and experience match their interests and needs.

For bioenergy investors, Maurice understands and appreciates the interests and aspirations of rural communities and can apply this experience for a company attempting to secure large quantities of biomass and planning to invest in a substantial facility to process this material. He can work with an existing team or scout and work with promising communities on behalf of the investor.  Should a relationship already exist with a biomass rich community there may also be a role as a third party facilitator.