Such organizations as the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, the U.S. Green Building Council and the Illuminating Engineering Society undertook the initiative to make this appeal.
The reason for that is due to the fact that the standards of high efficiency eco building projects (ASHRAE/IES/USGBC Standard 189.1) comprise the minimum requirements to reduce energy expenditure, resources consumption and many other factors having an impact upon the environment. Hence, the recommendations with regard to the use of renewable energy such as solar, wind and geothermal must be included in the standards.
In that way it was presumed to include biomass in the list of renewable energy sources. By the definition of biomass it is understood organic materials such as wood and agricultural crops wastes being incinerated for the production of thermal energy.
However, at the conference of American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, which was held in Chicago this proposal was rejected, and it was recommended for the working committee to make the notion of biomass and the requirements for its use correspond to the standards of the renewable energy sources.
Inasmuch as this proposal must have a fair public hearing on a par with standard implantation procedures, the working committee has got to elaborate a technical substantiation of including biomass in the list of renewable energy sources.
