As part of the global strategy on the use of Renewable Energy, Biomass provides an ever increasing role in the generation of power, through the incineration of plant matter (typically waste wood, wood chips, dead trees etc.) to produce electricity and/or heat. These fuels are incinerated to provide the necessary heat to operate steam turbines or gasification plants, which in turn produce electricity to power stand-alone industrial processes, or to be fed back into the national grid.