BioResource Management, Inc. provides consulting services for a range of clients including governmental agencies, universities, project developers and Fortune 500 companies. These services range from biomass feedstock assessments for biomass energy development to technical and peer review and grant writing services.
Feedstock Assessments
Answering questions about feedstock supply is one of the greatest challenges in the development of any large biomass facility. BioResource Management, Inc. brings over thirty years of experience in answering these questions for project developers, landowners, investors and lenders. BRM also has a unique experience in the industry: it has gone beyond generating analyses and reports to long term delivery of feedstock that meets estimated pricing. The BRM approach to supply analysis provides project developers and others with a logical progression of increasingly detailed information on biomass feedstock supplies, based on the following general questions:
Phase I: Resource Potential
Is sufficient biomass feedstock available in the project site’s supply area?
The right location is a key to successful biomass project development. Unless adequate volumes of biomass material are generated within a reasonable distance to a project’s location, the project is dead in the water. Early stage site selection decisions often need to identify the most promising areas from a short list of potential locations. BRM has assembled a series of tools that tap a variety of forestry, agricultural, and urban data sources to provide a rapid assessment of the biomass resource which is economical, practical and efficient, such that projects clearing this first hurdle can be identified.
Assessment elements include:
- Supply shed definition
- Feedstock generation estimation
- Estimates of cost and supply
Phase II: Local Biomass Industry
What is the status of the current biomass producing and processing industry and what are current volumes and pricing for biomass feedstock? 
Abundant biomass resources in an area does not ensure adequate supplies to a project, nor does in ensure accessible pricing. BRM’s experience in the industry and its contacts in forestry, agribusiness, and solid waste around the country enable it to provide detailed, site-specific market information to project developers. The BRM Phase II assessment examines supply and demand at a local level, from the perspective of key biomass operations currently harvesting, processing and hauling biomass resources in the area, as well as currently generated volumes and pricing. This phase includes on-the-ground verification of the type, scale and condition of biomass contractors, infrastructure, competition, and other local factors that will determine pricing and material availability to the project.
Assessment elements include:
- Supplier identification
- Competitor identification and analysis
- Verified prediction of current biomass quantities and costs
Phase III: Long-Term Supply Strategies
How stable and sustainable is the supply of feedstock across the project’s lifetime?
Biomass markets are not static: they are sensitive to changes in production practices, the level of competition, alteration of an area’s land use, and many other factors. As a result, biomass volumes and prices 15 and even 3 years into the future are unlikely to be identical to today’s levels. BRM has developed an up-to-date, high resolution method for determining current biomass stocks, and projecting future biomass supplies for the lifetime of the project.
Assessment elements include:
- Supply shed definition
- Land use and forest cover type and age mapping
- Growth and yield modeling
- Biomass supply generation
- Economic evaluation of biomass supply
Research & Development
BioResource Management, Inc. has extensive experience in conducting research and analysis for research and commercial-scale operations in the fields of agriculture and forestry. Some of the activities and services in these areas include:
- SRWC DSS/perennial crop economic analysis
- Land use and parcel data
- Project analysis (supply curves)
- Project impact studies (transportation impacts, economic social impacts, infrastructure impacts)
Grant Writing
BioResource Management, Inc. can assist clients in the preparation and submittal of grant applications, environmental permit applications, and bid, RFP and RFQ submittals.
Technical / Peer Review
BioResource Management, Inc. personnel has over thirty years of experience in the analysis, development, and supply of biomass projects in utilizing resources from the fields of forestry, agriculture and solid waste. This experience makes BRM uniquely qualified to provide technical and peer review services of a wide range of technical and financial documents, including:
- Review of product-based research
- Biomass procurement documents for project development and financial closing documents
- Environmental permit applications