Recent Government directives have required power generators to generate a certain proportion of its electricity from renewable sources, in order to help reduce the UK's CO2 emission levels in line with the Kyoto Protocol.
This has resulted in a variety of "renewable" products being co-fired with coal, including wood pellets, olive expeller, olive expeller pellets, straw pellets, palm kernel expeller and energy crops like miscanthus and short rotation willow coppice etc.
