Bioenergy is
renewable energy made available from materials derived from biological sources. Biomass is any organic material which has stored sunlight in the form of chemical energy. As a fuel it may include
wood, wood waste,
straw,
manure,
sugarcane, and many other byproducts from a variety of agricultural processes. By 2010, there was of globally installed bioenergy capacity for electricity generation, of which was in the
United States.