1. Biomass Availability
Assess the realistically available biomass quantity after seasonality, existing use, competing demand, collection losses, quality variation and supplier reliability are considered.
Feasibility Study
A feasibility study is a decision test, not a sales document.
The purpose is to discover what can stop the project, what can be corrected and what must be verified before capital is committed.
The decision
Can this specific project work under conditions the promoter can realistically achieve?
We begin with the proposed capacity, location, product and buyer route, then work backward to the physical and commercial conditions required to support them. The study is valuable when it can challenge the promoter’s preferred answer.
The final recommendation is framed as Go, Modify or Hold, with explicit conditions. A technically possible plant may still need a different capacity, feedstock mix, site, funding structure or market strategy.
Decision gates
The study passes through six core feasibility checks before a recommendation is made
2. Site Suitability
Evaluate whether the proposed site has suitable road access, utilities, storage space, safety conditions, material movement area and scope for future expansion.
3. Logistics Viability
Test whether biomass can be collected, aggregated, transported, handled and stored reliably within a commercially workable procurement radius and delivered cost.
4. Process Fit
Check whether the selected biomass characteristics are compatible with the proposed technology, preprocessing, drying, size reduction, feeding and production process.
5. Market Fit
Validate the target market, buyer requirements, product specifications, expected demand, pricing basis, delivery conditions and realistic sales route for the proposed output.
6. Financial Modelling
Model CAPEX, OPEX, working capital, production assumptions, selling price, profitability, debt servicing and sensitivity scenarios to understand whether the project remains financially viable under realistic conditions.
A common feasibility mistakeFilter 1 Filter 2 Filter 3 Filter 4
Gross residue is not plant supply.
District-level residue estimates are useful for orientation, but they are only the start. A commercial plant depends on the fraction that can be collected, purchased, stored and transported at the required quality when the plant needs it.
Physical recovery
What fraction can be practically recovered from fields or industrial sources?
Competing use
What is already used for fodder, fuel, soil retention, briquetting or other applications?
Commercial behaviour
Who will aggregate it, at what seasonal price, advance requirement and delivery commitment?
Plant-ready quality
What moisture, contamination, storage loss and preprocessing burden reaches the factory gate?
What the conclusion should tell you
A useful feasibility conclusion changes an action.
GO
Proceed with conditions
The opportunity is sufficiently supported, subject to named pre-commitment actions.
MODIFY
Change the design basis
Reduce or alter capacity, site, feedstock mix, product, funding or execution assumptions.
HOLD
Do not commit yet
Critical evidence or economics are too weak to support the next irreversible investment.
VERIFY
Close the evidence gap
Obtain samples, buyer confirmation, supplier contracts, land data or revised quotations before deciding.
Start with clarity
Validate the proposal before the next irreversible commitment.
Share the proposed location, product, capacity and the decision deadline you are working toward.