Abstract:Energy is an important part of the current social development are indispensable,material basis for human survival.As the world demand for energy continues to increase with the current reserves of traditional energy sources continue to reduce the contradictions become increasingly prominent,to seek new energy is the only effective path to solve this problem.The new concept of energy is relatively vague,generally refers to the various forms of energy outside of the traditional energy (oil,coal,natural gas,etc.).For example,solar energy,wind energy,biomass energy,tidal energy,geothermal energy and hydrogen and so on.This paper describes the biomass of the current situation and development as well as it has advantages and disadvantages
Keywords:new energy,biomass energy,characteristics,current status prospects.