The Nexus of Clean Energy, Healthy Forests, and a Stable Climate: Innovative Biomass Gasification for Sustainable Forest Management

All Power Labs (APL) developed two related technologies to manage wood waste in California. The first is a combined heat and power microgrid solution that provides 50 kW of on-demand, renewable energy. The second is the Chartainer, a high-throughput waste processing solution that produces combined heat and biochar at commercial scales.

These two technologies were developed in parallel during the five-year agreement term, processing forestry waste with a goal of reducing wildfire risk related to the dead tree crisis, based on a model for funding and scaling proactive forestry management and wildfire remediation. APL improved the efficiency of its existing technology, designed a remote monitoring system, created certified high-quality biochar, and created a new derivative product line that meets the needs of larger-scale customers and forestry agencies.