A bit of biomass!

Even if you think that Spain doesn't count with many biomass centrals, we count with ruffly 60 biomass centrals in 8 differents provences at Spain!Most of them are situated in andalusia.. and why are they all in andalucia? Just for a simple reason: it is the main place where food industries are, also andalusia has a big tradition of biomass energy.It counts with 300 millin trees which are uses on this energy, just in andalusia biomass gives energy to 700.000 houses per year!!And gives employment to quite a lot of people.
 In its latest years the use of biomass has increased a 9,9% making the first consume of renewable energy be a 84.6%.
Andalucia almost produce 164% MW, it is the 30% from the national total. which isn't a really big produce or consume but it is still quite good.
And if we want to comparate our consume of biomass energy with the total european union we must see this table:

Biocombustibles
	Consume 2005 (GWh)	Consume 2006 (GWh)			Consume 2007 (GWh)
Country	Total	Total	Biodiesel	Bioethanol	Total	Biodiesel	Bioethanol
SPAIN	1,583	1,961	629	1,332	4,341	3,031	1,310
UE	34,796	65,148	47,380	10,138	89,482	67,154	13,563

So there it is! And now if you want to learn a little bit more about' why should we use biomass' and the diferences between biomass energy and fossil fuels energy, you should watch this video which is made by an american girl showing us basic things about it!...

So biomass? maybe!

By Isabel Franco

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