BIOMASS ENERGY AND ENERGY FORESTRY

Biomass fuels account for nearly 14% of the world’s energy. Energy forestry has been investigated since the mid-1960s to produce fiber for the paper and pulp industry. In the 1970s, following the oil crises, the emphasis switched to producing woody biomass for energy using fast-growing trees. Fastgrowing broadleaved trees, such as poplars and willows are grown at close spacing and under intensive management systems more akin to agriculture practice than forestry. In Turkey, rehabilitation studies in especially oak coppice stands are thought to be a part of the energy forestry, but the areas coppice stands grow on and species common in those areas are not suitable for modern energy forestry used in developed countries