The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) is on the lookout to find partners for its new bioenergy project, which it hopes to use to improve the future of biomass logistics in the United Kingdom.

Hannah Evans, ETI bioenergy strategy analyst, said: "While supply has been able to keep up with demand to date, as the bioenergy sector continues to grow further investment will need to be made to ensure sufficient quantities of biomass can be imported ... and distributed to end users."

The biomass sector has it's commercial foundations in being able to minimise the cost to the consumer, but it's important that the infrastructure for it is developed carefully and used in the most efficient way.

As a forward-thinking sector, biomass can still learn from other sectors to create a supply chain that is improved overall in the UK.

Ms Evans added that although the domestic sources in the UK offer long-term energy sustainability and security, there isn't enough biomass to create a large-scale bioenergy sector.

She suggests that the approach should be then to develop the sector "based on near-term increases in biomass imports derived from sustainable sources".