Track & Trace Program Highlights Enviva’s Leadership in Sustainability

Southeastern Forests Continue to Grow and Thrive

BETHESDA, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Enviva, the world’s largest producer of wood pellets, today released its
latest proprietary Track & Trace forestry data, highlighting the
company’s ongoing commitment to a sustainable and transparent supply
chain. These data are another key tool for measuring and demonstrating
Enviva’s sustainability practices throughout the Southeastern United
States.

“We are committed to keeping forests healthy and growing, while
producing a cleaner energy alternative to fossil fuels,” said John
Keppler, Chairman and CEO of Enviva. “Track & Trace is fundamental to
that commitment, and the latest data clearly demonstrates how our
forestry practices continue to have a positive effect on Southeastern
forests.”

Track & Trace is a proprietary system that enables Enviva to monitor
every truckload of wood the company procures from the forest throughout
the entire supply chain process. This innovative technology provides
detailed insights into the wood’s unique characteristics – including
origination – enabling the company to continue to refine its sustainable
sourcing policies.

The latest Track & Trace data shows that Enviva sourced wood from nearly
1,200 working forest harvests in 83 counties in 5 Southern states over a
six-month period ending in March 2017. The forests in the Southeast
continue to grow and thrive, with the total amount of forested land in
Enviva’s primary supply area increasing by 320,842 acres since 2011,
according to the U.S. Forest Service. Inventory on that land has grown
by 10 percent during that time period, and continues to increase as
forests grow at a faster rate than they are harvested.

Other findings include:

• Approximately 38 percent of Enviva’s wood came from pine and hardwood
  mixed forests, 29 percent from Southern yellow pine forests and five
  percent from upland hardwood forests. The wood sourced by Enviva
  consists of undersized or “understory” wood that was removed as part
  of a larger harvest; tops and limbs; brush; and “thinnings” that were
  removed to make additional room for planted pines to grow.
• Approximately 23 percent was sawdust, shavings or residuals from wood
  product manufacturing.
• Four percent came from working bottomland hardwood forests, also
  consisting of undersized or “understory” wood; and tops and limbs.
• Less than one percent came from arboricultural sources, such as
  landscaping and urban tree maintenance.
• Wood fiber harvested on these tracts came from trees that were an
  average of 36 years old.

Enviva makes pellets using low-grade wood from Southern working forests.
Enviva does not use high-quality wood that would otherwise be milled
into furniture or construction materials, but procures only low-quality
materials such as pulpwood and “leftovers,” including undersized or
crooked trees, limbs, tops, wood chips and sawdust. Additionally, Enviva
does not source wood from independently identified bottomland forest
ecosystems that demonstrate high conservation value attributes, or from
any forest where the landowner plans to convert to a non-forest use.

Before selling wood to Enviva, a supplier must provide detailed data on
the specific forest tract being considered for harvest, including each
individual tract’s precise geographic location, acreage, forest type,
species mix, age and the share of wood from each harvest that goes to
Enviva versus other consumers. Enviva does not accept any wood from a
harvest without this information, and Enviva records the data and
verifies the accuracy of its procedures through third-party audits.

“The Track and Trace system helps us to finely tune the science applied
to forestry practices,” said Jennifer C. Jenkins, Ph.D., Chief
Sustainability Officer at Enviva. “The data we collect about our
sourcing allows us to confirm that we are buying wood that is consistent
with the value we place on forest stewardship. Our goal, as always, is
to contribute to the health of the working forest landscape.”

For more information, visit www.envivabiomass.com.

About Enviva Holdings, LP

Enviva Holdings, LP is the world’s largest producer of wood pellets,
a renewable and sustainable energy source used to generate electricity
and heat. Through its subsidiaries, Enviva Holdings, LP owns and
operates plants in the Southeastern United States that produce nearly 3
million metric tons of wood pellets annually. We export our pellets
primarily to power plants in the United Kingdom and Europe that
previously were fueled by coal, enabling them to reduce their lifetime
carbon footprint by about 80 percent. We make our pellets using
sustainable practices that protect Southern forests. And we employ about
600 people and support many other businesses in the rural South, where
jobs and economic opportunity are sometimes scarce. Enviva Holdings, LP
conducts its activities primarily through two entities: Enviva Partners,
LP, a publicly-traded master limited partnership (NYSE: EVA), and Enviva
Development Holdings, LLC, a wholly-owned private company. To learn more
about Enviva Partners, LP, please visit our website at www.envivabiomass.com
and follow us on Twitter (@EnvivaBiomass).

Contacts

Enviva Holdings, LP
K. C. Tripp, 301-657-5560
[email protected]