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Filtering

The tracker organizes information in both a map and table format. Projects can be filtered in the following ways:

• Status Category: To select one or more status categories, click one or more checkboxes, such as “operating” and/or “construction”.
• Fuel Type(s): To select one or more types of facilities, click one or more checkboxes such as “wood & other biomass”.
• Conversion: To find facilities that have been converted from oil, gas, or coal to bioenergy, click the checkbox for “conversion”.
• Country: To find a particular country’s facilities, type the name of the country in the “Filter the map” box. For example, type “India”.
• Country Zoom: To zoom the map to a particular country, click directly on that country in the global map view.

Fuel types

The Global Bioenergy Power Tracker map fuel type categories include the following aggregations:

• agricultural waste: biogas, solids, syngas, or unknown
• biodiesel
• ethanol
• paper mill wastes
• refuse: landfill gas, municipal and industrial wastes, or syngas
• wastewater and sewage sludge: solids or biogas
• wood & other biomass: biocoal, solids, or syngas
• unknown

Credits

The tracker was designed and produced by Global Energy Monitor, a network of researchers seeking to develop collaborative informational resources on fossil fuel impacts and alternatives.

Please cite the data as Global Energy Monitor, Global Bioenergy Power Tracker, with the date you accessed the data.