Biomass briquettes are a
biofuel substitute to
coal and
charcoal.
Briquettes are mostly used in the
developing world, where cooking fuels are not as easily available. There has been a move to the use of briquettes in the developed world, where they are used to heat industrial
boilers in order to produce
electricity from
steam. The briquettes are
cofired with coal in order to create the heat supplied to the boiler.