A report, carried out by the Technology and Policy Assessment function of the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC), has shown that up to a fifth of global energy could be produced via biomass.
The prediction, which is based on information taken from over 90 global studies and reviews, also claims that this would not necessarily have to impact on food production.
What role biomass can play when it comes to energy production has long been a cause for debate among scientists who have argued as to whether it could play a major role in world energy production or cause a large-scale environmental disaster.
However, Dr Raphael Slade, the report's lead author and a Research Fellow at Imperial College London, claims that the prediction is perfectly reasonable.
Dr Slade said: "If we make the best use of agricultural residues, energy crops and waste materials then getting one fifth of current global energy supply from biomass is a reasonable ambition."
The report suggests the main reason scientists disagree is that they make different assumptions about population, diet, and land use.
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