Innergy is participating in the Expobiomasa 2025 Innovation Awards with a revolutionary proposal for emissions control in biomass installations: the Dynamic Rotary Air Cleaner (DRAC), a solution that combines efficiency, low energy consumption, and minimal maintenance. Designed to comply with the most stringent environmental regulations, such as the Directive […]
Spain celebrates its Bioenergy Day 30 on Saturday, November 2024. A symbolic date from which, and until the end of the year, bioenergy could cover all the country's energy needs, including electricity, heat and transport. Biomass heating and cooling networks connect homes, public buildings, hospitals and
The works to expand the heat transport pipeline network in Ponferrada, which began in June 2024 and are scheduled to end in April 2025, will be able to meet the demand of more than 2.800 homes and 43 tertiary buildings and will mean the suspension of more than 100
ECOFRICALIA will be responsible for installing the first pellet plant in Cuba. The installation is part of the development aid project “Energy valorization of residual woody biomass in agri-food and bionatural product industries”. The project will be developed for 18 months, from November 2022, at the Protein Plant Research Center
The energy needed by an industry for its production processes or by a community of neighbours or a hotel to heat its residents in 2022 was 4,6 times more expensive if it was obtained with gas than if wood chips were used. Domestic consumers of pellets, for their part, saved 44% compared to
On April 20th, a webinar was held organized by INSELTRADE and AVEBIOM with simple and direct presentations of the latest technologies that are being implemented in biomass plants for electricity production and industrial heat by some leading Finnish companies. The program of the Technical Trip was also presented.
The “Electronic Combustion Control-ECC” for wood stoves, presented by JOTUL GROUP, has been chosen by the jury as the winner in the TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION category. In the INNOVATIVE PRACTICE category, the public vote and the jury have awarded the “MHE+Bosque” initiative, presented by MONTE HOLIDAY ECOTURISMO. The prizes will be presented on
34,6 million euros have been awarded to a total of 23 projects for heating and cooling networks with renewable energy, which will be launched in six autonomous communities: Aragon (1), Castilla-La Mancha (6), Castilla y León (8), Catalonia (6), Galicia (1) and the Principality of Asturias (1). The Institute for Diversification and
In June, a trip to Finland will be organised to learn about solutions and suppliers, for example for renewable energy. Participants will be able to visit suppliers' factories and renewable energy plants. During the trip, participants will visit the city of Mikkeli, its surroundings and Helsinki, the capital city of Finland.
ENSO has signed an agreement with GARCÍA-CARRÍÓN, the leading winery in Europe and fourth in the world, for the construction of a biomass plant for thermal supply under the modality of energy services company (ESE) that will cover 100% of the thermal demand of the production processes of GARCÍA-CARRÍÓN at its Don Simón plant in Huelva.
The call will remain open until March 31, 2023 and the awards will be presented at the EXPOBIOMASA fair, on May 9, 2023. The double call is part of the set of activities that Expobiomasa develops from its firm commitment to the revitalization of the sector and the recognition of the initiatives that
The Minister for the Environment, Housing and Land Management, Juan Carlos Suárez-Quiñones, has visited the state of the works of the second phase of the Sustainable Heat Network of the Villalonquéjar industrial estate, in Burgos, managed by the Regional Government, through Somacyl, which will serve new industries. This extension includes the network
The Spanish Biomass Association, AVEBIOM, has decided to award the 'Fomenta la Bioenergía 2022' prize to the Provincial Council of Badajoz to recognize its support for 25 unique projects in smaller local entities that favor the transition to a low-carbon economy and whose energy source is biomass. The award ceremony
On November 29, “Bioenergy Day 2022” was celebrated in Spain, four days earlier than last year. Javier Díaz, president of the Spanish Biomass Association, highlights the progress achieved in 2022 by Spain, which has managed to bring forward the celebration of its Bioenergy Day to November 29,
Europe's forests are under increasing pressure from rising temperatures, which are causing more forest fires, pests and diseases that threaten their ability to store carbon dioxide and safeguard biodiversity. The letter, addressed to the presidents of the three main EU institutions - the European Commission, the European Council
The Association of Heat and Cold Network Companies (ADHAC) has recently published the 2022 Census of Heat and Cold Networks. This census adds 20 new heat networks, reaching a total of 516 heat and cold networks operating in Spain. Of the 20 new heat and cold networks,
Pellet consumption in Europe in pellet stoves and boilers with power up to 50kW for residential heating, reached 14,1 million tonnes in 2021, in 2020 it was 11,9 million, which indicates an increase of 18% more than the previous year. These are data from the latest Bioenergy Europe Statistical Report.
It will allow users to save between 30% and 50% of their energy bills, compared to the current high prices. Through a modern renewable energy park in León that the Junta will build, through Somacyl, green hydrogen will also be generated for mobility and industrial uses. The park
The Council of Ministers, at the request of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, the Ministry of Finance and Public Administration, and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, has approved a Royal Decree-Law 17/2022, of September 20, with several energy-related measures, such as the reduction of VAT from 21%
In this third auction, which was held on October 25, 2022, biomass was allocated up to 100 MW in projects without power restrictions and another 40 MW for facilities with installed capacity equal to or less than 20 MW. MITECO has finally awarded 146 MW of biomass at a weighted average price of 93,09
ENSO will develop, build and manage the largest biomass cogeneration plant in Spain for the ACOR cooperative, owner of the largest sugar beet-based sugar mill in Spain and member of AVEBIOM for several years. ENSO will invest 70 million euros in the construction of the largest biomass cogeneration plant
The municipality of El Tiemblo, from Ávila, has received the Honorable Mention in the thirteenth edition of the @EnerAgen awards in the category 'Best Performance in the Matter of Renewable Energies', for its centralized biomass boiler project for the supply of heating and water heat ten municipal buildings using the wood chips as fuel.
Sugimat is a company associated with AVEBIOM, specialized in the design and manufacture of industrial biomass boilers. The reference price of natural gas for the Iberian Peninsula has been gradually rising throughout 2021 and, now, with the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, it has increased by more than 10 times its price from a year ago.
The call for proposals will be launched in spring 2022 and will be implemented through an incentive program for private companies and another aimed at the public sector, which will allow the start-up of biomass, solar thermal energy, geothermal energy, ambient energy (aerothermal and hydrothermal) or micro-grids for heat and cold.
The Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) has selected 57 innovative biomass projects that accumulate 435 MW of power to produce thermal energy in 8 autonomous communities, which will receive public aid worth 33.666.035 euros. Projects in all economic sectors The replacement of equipment with fossil fuels with
The Forestalia biomass power plant, located in Cubillos del Sil, has made a positive assessment of its start-up. In its first year of operation it has generated 225.000 MWh, the electricity consumed by 56.250 homes. During this year of operation, the company Acciona has been in charge of the contracts.
“The webinar was an interesting first contact for our companies and also for Canadian organizations on a topic with great potential for development in both countries, such as the generation of energy with biomass, an important resource both in Canada and in Spain,” according to Javier Díaz, president of AVEBIOM. Nadia Rego, commercial delegate
In the latest report of the Biomass Observatory for 2020, it has compiled 433 biomass heat networks, which represent nearly 383 MW of installed thermal power. The progression of the implementation of biomass heat networks in our country is clearly positive; since 2010, when the first 30 were inventoried, the
On February 23, AVEBIOM is organizing the free webinar “Biomass emissions. Are they being accounted for correctly?” to show that the methodology used to estimate emissions must clearly distinguish obsolete and inefficient equipment from technologically advanced biomass systems, which more than comply with Ecodesign regulations. Christoph Schmidl, researcher at the Austrian technology center BEST (Bioenergy and Biotechnology), will discuss the issue of emissions from biomass emissions.
The Spanish Biomass Association has presented two projects to the Government of Spain to promote the implementation of biomass as a renewable energy source in municipalities with less than 5.000 inhabitants. The two initiatives presented by AVEBIOM in December 2020 to the IDAE would mobilize 1.000 billion euros and fully fit with the objectives
