BIOMASS NEWS No. 11

SUMMARY – BIOMASS NEWS #11 / April 2025

SIGNATURES

• Bioenergy benefits us all: from industry to homes – Javier Díaz, president of AVEBIOM (p. 3)

• The role of bioenergy in industrial decarbonization in Europe – Jean Marc Jossart and Manolis Karampinis (BIOENERGY EUROPE) (p. 6)

• Bioenergy: immediate availability to decarbonize Spanish industry. With RENEWABLE RIVERS and VEOLIA (p. 10)

RENEWABLE GAS

• What can gasification contribute to the energy transition and the competitiveness of industries? José Antonio La Cal. (p. 12)

• El Salón del Gas Renovable and Congreso Internacional de Bioenergía will be held in Valladolid, on October 1 and 2, 2025 (p. 14)

REGULATIONS

• Biomass heating equipment manufacturers and the new Ecodesign Regulation (p. 16)

• How to ensure a greater participation of biomass in cogeneration? (p. 18)

• SURE adapts its certification to the requirements of NETWORK III to facilitate regulatory compliance for companies (p. 19)

• The recognition from the European Cooperation for Accreditation (EA) consolidates Enplus® as a benchmark in pellet certification (p. 20)

• Standardization of residual biomass in the agri-food sector (p. 20)

• Proposals to promote heating and cooling networks in Spain (p. 21)

• A Social Biomass Bond as a strategy to reduce energy poverty in Spain (p. 22)

HEAT NETWORKS

• Status of biomass-fueled heating networks in Spain in 2024 (p. 24)

• 10 years of renewable heat with biomass in Soria (p. 25)

• The provincial councils support the installation of biomass plants to boost the energy transition in Catalonia (p. 26)

• Langreo's pioneering heat network combines geothermal and biomass energy (p. 28)

EXPOBIOMASS 2025

• General information (p. 30)

• Technical Workshops (p. 32)

• Site plan (p. 34)

• Exhibiting companies (p. 36)

• Nearly 50 applications are vying for the 2025 Biomass Innovation Award (p. 40)

FAIRS AND EVENTS

• «Biomasa en tu Casa»: the traveling exhibition that will bring biomass to 250 municipalities until 2029 is back (p. 42)

• Francisco Repullo receives the “Promotes Bioenergy 2024” award (p. 44)

ELECTRICITY

• ENSO and Solvay: biomass cogeneration plant progresses (p. 45)

SUSTAINABILITY

• Impact of biochar on olive grove productivity: up to a 24% increase in harvest (p. 46)

• Pilot project to manufacture glass containers using biomass slag (p. 47)

BIOFUELS

• Biogenic CO2 to decarbonize maritime transport (p. 48)

• Magnon Green Energy will produce advanced biofuels (p. 48)

• Repsol will produce 240,000 tons of renewable fuel at its Ecoplant in Tarragona (p. 49)

FACILITIES

• PROSOL replaces natural gas with biomass in its coffee plant (p. 50)

• The ALIER paper mill houses the largest industrial biomass plant in Catalonia (p. 51)

• ENSO will install and operate a biomass boiler for International Paper in Madrid (p. 51)

• Caligo Industria strengthens its position in the international market with a major order from France (p. 52)

• Pinja: software for managing biomass logistics (p. 53)

• Laitex supplies a comprehensive solution for biomass management at the Stora Enso plant in Oulu (p. 53)

PELLET

• The first pellet production and use plant in Cuba is now operational (p. 54)

• Boga Técnica installs the second paper bag bagging plant in Naturpellet (p. 55)

BIOECONOMY

• Bioeconomy and the primary sector: the challenge of bringing innovation to the field (p. 56)

• Reolum's sustainable reindustrialization project in La Robla is progressing (p. 58)

• Euthenia Energy certifies the carbon removals of its pyrolysis and biochar plant in Lucena (p. 59)

MARKET

• Everything you need to know about the European Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) (p. 60)

• Veolia reinforces its commitment to bioenergy in Spain with the purchase of Coterram and the alliance with Imartec (p. 62)

• ENGIE Spain expands its presence in the biomass-fueled district heating network market (p. 62)

• Domestic pellet price index ENplus® at the factory (p. 63)

• Index of domestic biofuel prices in Spain for the end customer (p. 64)

AVEBIOM

• List of companies associated with AVEBIOM

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