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This is the first in a two-part series related to wood supply agreements and their relevance to analyzing timber markets. In his 1989 book Liar’s Poker, Michael Lewis wrote, “Risk, I learned, was a commodity. Risk could be canned and more…
This post includes an excerpt of the research in the February/March/April edition of Wood Bioenergy US (WBUS) and is the first part of a two part series on liquid biofuels. In May 2011, Forisk and the Schiamberg Group evaluated the viability more…
This post summarizes research from the January 2013 edition of Wood Bioenergy US (WBUS). Viable wood bioenergy projects can secure competitive financing. In U.S. capital markets, primary sources of financing for these projects include private equity, project finance, grants, loans and more…
This post summarizes research from the December 2012 edition of Wood Bioenergy US (WBUS). In 1972, the Club of Rome commissioned The Limits to Growth, a book which explored the interaction between exponential growth and limited resources. The book concluded more…
Foresters and timberland owners in Texas could care less about wood bioenergy projects in Florida or Georgia. Why? Because wood bioenergy markets impact timberland investments and the forest products industry at the local level. The uncertainty of new project announcements more…
We are thrilled to announce that The Forest History Society published the book “Wood for Bioenergy: Forests as a Resource for Biomass and Biofuels” by Forisk authors Brooks Mendell and Amanda Hamsley Lang. The book reviews the historical context and more…
Regardless the policy mandates and investor interests, regional analysis of US bioenergy markets highlights how specific geographies provide superior access to raw material and infrastructure resources for supporting high growth investment opportunities. The costs associated with locating and building wood bioenergy more…
The costs associated with citing and building wood bioenergy projects can exceed those to build and operate natural gas or coal plants (in terms of dollars per unit of electricity output). As such, factors determining the success and failure of more…
A fundamental mismatch exists between clean energy projects and venture capital funds. This conclusion, in a Harvard Business School working paper “Venture Capital Investment in the Clean Energy Sector” by Shikhar Ghosh and Ramana Nanda, emphasized investor expectations of extraordinary more…
Wood bioenergy projects continue to either gain traction or fall to the sidelines as investors shake the sector like a sack of Scrabble tiles. While the number of projects that pass Forisk’s screening methodology in April fell from 297 to more…