Bioenergy, biomass, power generation and employment. The Journal Press Club de Leon had hosted a talk on energy crops in which the Director General of Energy and Mines of the Junta de Castilla y León, Ricardo González Mantero, Director General of the Environment, José Ángel Arranz and Daldur the Group Leader, Alvaro Duran, with the moderation of the Director of the Journal, reflected on the possibilities for biomass, cultivation, harvesting, processing and end use can be generated in a province like Leon.
Before commenting on the conclusions could be drawn from the technical conference is to clarify some of the concepts used in this sector.
What is meant by bioenergy? Bioenergy
be all that energy, either in the form of heat in the form of electrical energy, derived from organic matter. Thus the heat produced from burning wood in a traditional fireplace, or fuels derived from the processing of oils from crops such as sunflower or corn, fall into this definition.
Biomass. According to the Royal Academy would be the organic matter originated in a biological process, spontaneous or induced, can be used as an energy source. Few qualifications can be made to this definition. Simply add that this biomass can have different origins: it can come from the work carried out in forests and agricultural land use and forestry, in which the great deal of usable biomass waste in different ways.
I also carry this specific crop biomass made to be transformed into different processes and generate energy, usually heat or electricity. These are called energy crops.
What are pellets?
One way to present the final consumer normally dedicated biomass thermal power generation in homes or construction of industrial or service sector are the pellets. It consists of small portions of crushed and compacted biomass with different procedures, easily manageable with manual or mechanical means, and with good properties for heat generation in boilers. The user can get these pellets in bags, bulk supply and competitive prices. Conclusions
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can distinguish two types of findings: comments from members of the regional administration, the two CEOs, and those made by the representative of the Company.
For the administration:
regional administration maintains a constant support to the development of facilities of biomass for different uses, to promote the introduction of new generation plants, processing plants and utilities and marketing of various products and byproducts.
also maintains a constant work in adapting rules and regulations of the various agricultural and forestry activities related to the generation of different exploitable biomass productivity, in order that these activities are economically profitable for farmers and loggers.
The interest of the Junta de Castilla y Leon rfleja that was the first English government, which has developed a Regional Plan Sectorial Scope Bio-Energy, which tries to plan the activities of the sector until 2020.
management includes the development of these new activities both from the energy standpoint, and from the point of view of employment generation and rural revitalization and farming.
On behalf of the company:
Daldur Group has projects in various stages of development in the province of León, specifically plants generating electricity from biomass in the towns of La Bañeza and Onzonilla.
resources used in these power plants are corn and rye in the ground Bañezana, and poplar and forest residues Onzonilla plant.
The company needs the involvement of producers, farmers, to have a secure and steady supply of organic material for processing at the plant.
Specifically, the plant Onzonilla Daldur require 1200 hectares of poplar. The tests conducted so far provide yields of 40 tonnes per hectare, divided into short two-year and desirable returns for producers, which can also provide advice on the various stages of production.
Overall, it appears that all are hopes for this sector, although he has been taking off over five years, hopeful as a province that requires Leonesa-creating jobs and generating business synergies to stop the destruction of the agricultural sector and offset the destruction of jobs in declining activities such as quarrying. Marcos Alvarez
