The Spanish Bioethanol Association, BIO-E, has signed an agreement as an ally to participate in the EXPOBIOMASA 2025 fair. BIO-E is an organization that promotes the biorefining of agricultural raw materials and waste to produce proteins, biomaterials and bioethanol. Bioethanol is a product used in the healthcare sector, in industry and as a renewable fuel […]
The Spanish Biomass Association, AVEBIOM, publishes the price comparison between the main energy sources available on the current market for domestic heating, with data from the first half of 2024 to help consumers make informed decisions. With energy prices experiencing very notable fluctuations in the last few years,
A team of researchers from Pontevedra is carrying out pyrolization tests on forest and agricultural waste to obtain biochar, a carbonaceous material that can be used as a soil amendment and improve its fertility and structure and contribute to carbon capture, among other uses. The project, promoted by Luis Ortiz, Antonio Vázquez, Juan Luis Rodríguez
The sector associations AVEBIOM and APROPELLETS, which support and give voice to more than 250 companies related to the value chain of biomass energy generation in Spain, regret the end of the reduced 10% VAT for pellets and firewood, which has returned to 21% since 1
The latest statistical report on the wood pellet market in Europe, published by the European bioenergy association, Bioenergy Europe, provides the information necessary to understand its recent developments, the factors that have influenced consumption and production, and the underlying financial implications. Wood pellets are an essential component within the European bioenergy market.
In May 2024, the Spanish Biomass Association has carried out a comparative analysis of the prices of different solid biofuels such as ENplus® certified pellets, wood chips and olive stones and other energy sources available in Spain, and their behavior over the next few years.
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
The characteristics that make this packaging unique are its biodegradable, compostable and reusable quality. In addition, the inks used are water-based, therefore biodegradable and vegan, meaning they do not contain any chemicals that affect the earth. The Environment and the sustainability of the planet are the fundamental pillars of the Utzubar-Naparpellet Group. Always
It is a digital tool that connects biomass and natural energy producers with the customer. With just over a year of experience, more than 800 satisfied customers and more than a thousand tons of biomass sold, it is a digital Marketplace for producers and customers that can be accessed with a single click.
The price of pellets at origin or ex works (EXW) peaked in November 2022 and has fallen by 43,5 percentage points until March 2023. After reaching its historical maximum, with a value of 220,1% compared to the base value of 100% of the first quarter of 2019 (when it began to be produced),
At Apropellets we continue to detect websites and emails that claim to sell wood pellets at prices well below market prices and only seek to defraud consumers and distributors. Although the average prices of pellets in the factory have dropped compared to their maximum prices last October, the
The measures come into force on 1 January 2023 and will mobilise around 10.000 billion euros of public resources that will be allocated primarily to assisting the groups most vulnerable to the increase in the price of food and other basic goods and the rise in the cost of
According to the statistical report on the wood pellet market for 2022 by AVEBIOM, pellet production in Spain grew by 2021% in 5, reaching 641.710 tonnes. As another turbulent year in the sector is about to end, production forecasts for 2022 are for XNUMX tonnes to be produced.
The latest statistical report on the national wood pellet market for 2022, prepared every year by AVEBIOM, is now available. This report contains data on the production and consumption of wood pellets both at national level and by autonomous communities. It also includes statistics on the evolution of the wood pellets system.
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 also offers information on the 35 ENplus® certified pellet distributors and, for the first time, on the BIOmasud® certified firewood manufacturers and distributors. It also includes data on the 54 pellet, chip and bone centres in Portugal. Pellet plants All autonomous communities, except the Canary Islands and the cities of Ceuta and
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%
Historical highs have been reached in the installation of equipment and the total installed capacity. These equipment are intended to generate thermal energy of renewable and local origin, above all, to provide industrial heat and supply domestic heating. The year 2021 has marked a new record in the installation of biomass equipment in Spain. The year
The forestry and bioenergy sectors, administration and conservationists warn that the use of biomass is vital for the adaptation of our forests to climate change and thus reduce the virulence of forest fires. The EU is preparing a new directive on renewable energies (RED III) that could become a new law.
Naparpellet's PELLETBOX is an innovative system for transporting, distributing, handling and feeding pellet stoves and boilers. It basically consists of a palletised cardboard box and an extraction system, avoiding, for example, the use of plastic bags or a pellet silo when feeding a boiler. Naparpellet's challenge
EUROSTAT publishes the average prices paid by consumers in Spain, including taxes, for energy in December 2021, before the price escalation caused by the war in Ukraine. Electricity had already risen by 23% during 2021, gas by 22% and heating oil by 46%. Few experts
CEPEVER Energía Verde has become the largest pellet marketer in Spain. Its objective is to provide uniformity to the “pellet” product for the final consumer and thus contribute to the expansion of its use as a clean and economical source of energy. This pellet brand offers purchasing centres and consumers a unique
The modern world demands new ways of selling the products that the market offers. Technological improvements have always been key to keeping businesses up to date with the circumstances of each era, even more so in strategic and cutting-edge sectors such as energy. With the pellet there is already an answer to this world.
The Official College of Forest Engineers has proposed to the Government, on the International Day of Forests, that a reduced VAT of 10% be applied, instead of the current 21%, to forest biomass consumed by families for energy use. Such a reduction in VAT would represent a considerable saving estimated at
The AIMMP – Association of Wood and Furniture Industries of Portugal is the only business association in the sector in Portugal, representing all forest industries. It will be present in Valladolid from 21 to 23 September at Expobiomasa with its associates: Omnipellet Tecpellets JAF
Located in the heart of the Tierra de Pinares region, Naturpellet's goal is to produce pellets of the highest quality and in an environmentally friendly manner. Using the pine trees that surround it as raw material, they undergo a debarking and sawing process in their own facilities to ensure the purity of the product.
Gebio Energía, an energy services company, has been producing its own certified pellets of the highest quality since last year and has implemented a new logistics system to serve its customers in Spain and Portugal. It currently has its own pellet factory located in Lousada (Portugal) with an annual production of 45.000 pellets.
Naparpellet is a leading company in innovation and quality of pellets and chips that is “transforming the future”. In fact, it is the only company recommended by numerous boiler and stove manufacturers in Europe. The high-quality pellets are produced with 100% pine sawdust, dried at low temperatures, and with medium manufacturing humidity.
CEPEVER ENERGÍA VERDE is a new project that is based on the knowledge of the sector during more than a decade of growth and helps clients to improve the management and purchase of pellets, offering a 360-degree service. The strength that this project defends is solidity and simple things.
