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California wants biomass markets to fund costly forest thinning, and startups — many based in the state — believe they have solutions.

But because of strict permitting and local opposition, many have given up on California and taken their proof-of-concept projects elsewhere.

Supporters see bioenergy as aiding wildfire mitigation while generating electricity, while critics cite pollution risks and past failures to cut emissions.

Arbor Energy is, essentially, a poster child of the kind of biomass energy project California keeps saying it wants.

The state’s goal is to reduce wildfire risk on 1 million acres of wildlands every year , including by thinning overgrown forests, whic

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