There’s a belief that burning anything for fuel is bad for the environment and akin to burning fossil fuels. This isn’t necessarily true, especially for Miscanthus. It’s scientifically proven that the crop mass you see above ground is carbon neutral – taking in carbon during its growth period and even after being cut, baled, driven to the power station (generating 0.7 t CO2 /ha / year of emmissions) and burnt, will only release what it has taken in. The below ground rhizomes also store CO2 (3.05 t CO2 equivalent per hectare per year), making the crop carbon negative, even when combusted towards our energy needs (net 2.35 t / ha CO2 / year).