Most agricultural residues have yet to be widely used for power generation.
However, they can offer a sizeable biomass resource if supply infrastructures are developed to economically deliver them to power plants that can use them as fuel. In the U.S. today, bagasse and rice husks are the most utilized agricultural residues for electricity generation. When sugar cane is crushed to extract the juice, the remaining pulp is called bagasse. The U.S. is the leading producer of electricity from bagasse, with operating bagasse-fueled cogeneration facilities in Florida, Hawaii, and Louisiana. Bagasse is also an important energy source in a number of other nations, including Australia, Pakistan, India, Reunion Island, Thailand, and others in Africa, Southern Asia, and South America.