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Oil palm sector generates the largest amount of biomass. About 90 million dry tonnes was estimated in 2010 and expected to increase to about 100 million tonnes by 2020. Oil palm industry generated abundance of renewable biomass such as 13.97 million tons of trunks (OPT), 44.84 million tonnes of fronds (OPF), 6.93 million tonnes oil palm empty fruit bunch (OPEFB), 4.21 million tonnes shell, 7.29 million tonnes mesocarp fiber (OPMF), 3 million tonnes of decanter cake (OPDC) and 60.3 million tonnes of palm oil mill effluent (POME). The conventional practice to treat the POME is by using a series of low cost ponds require a large area of land, long retention time and release huge amount of methane gas to environment. As a sustainability of palm oil industry, we proposed for the development of a modern and complete methane fermentation system by changing lagoons into a profitable area. The sealed area will become the available area for new business to which biomass energy can be supplied from palm oil industry at a reasonable price. Thus the generation of green renewable electricity from methane will give an alternative for new biomass business towards zero emission and create new waste to wealth phenomenon. With the appropriate downstream biomass processing technologies, it contributes to the reduction of greenhouse gases emission by sealing the lagoons, prevention of undesirable smell and water pollution by modern treatment plus water recycling and finally local employment can be encouraged from a new business.