I would say so. Bioenergy is a renewable energy, so it is often grouped with wind and solar. However, bioenergy is a dispatchable energy, which means that you can turn it up and down and on and off. If it gets colder, you can have more. Oftentimes, in the procurement policies or the competitive energy policies for electricity, you put biomass in with wind and solar. With regard to the cost on a per-megawatt-hour basis, biomass is typically more expensive than wind and, in many cases, solar.
However, what we need to be thinking about is not only the cost of generation but also the cost to the consumer and the levelized cost of energy for the entire system. This is where bioenergy, as a dispatchable resource and as the only one that's at scale in many jurisdictions in Canada and can be turned up and down, has to be dealt with differently. Ultimately, we also have to think of it as a public resource and about how there are very significant macroeconomic benefits to having biomass power and combined heat and power plants in terms of retention of jobs in the solid wood products sector and also on the forest management side.
