Almost 3,300 homes in the Community of Madrid were added to biomass heating in 2018

Almost 17,500 high-efficiency biomass stoves and boilers were operating in the Community of Madrid at the end of 2018, 23% more than the previous year, according to the 2019 Annual Report of the Biomass Observatory managed by the Spanish Association for Energy Valorization of Biomass. Biomass (Avebiom).

This increase in technologically advanced biomass facilities, which involves the incorporation of almost 3,300 households and buildings for collective use, places the business volume of the regional sector in 50.3 million eur. 

The manufacturing and marketing of the new equipment, as well as the maintenance and sale of solid biofuels, among others, generated an activity that employs 596 people, 10.7% more than the previous year.

Regarding the energy consumed by biomass equipment in the Community of Madrid, it amounted to 83.68 KTEP, which has allowed the equivalent savings of almost 97.5 million liters of diesel in 2018.

The contribution of the sector to the greenhouse gas reduction strategy is also relevant, since the 17,492 biomass equipment installed in the Community avoided the emission of 258,700 tons of CO ₂ , similar to the pollution produced during a year by 172,500 passenger cars. , 3.5% of all mobile fleet in the region.