The number of new biomass boilers and stoves in Spain grows by 56% in two years

Expobiomasa 2017, the international fair organized by the Spanish Association for the Energy Recovery of Biomass, AVEBIOM, will bring together in Valladolid between September 26 and 29 more than 600 companies and firms in the biomass sector, from 30 countries, in a surface area of ​​34,000 square meters, which is 30% more than in the previous edition.

Since the previous edition of Expobiomasa in 2015, thermal biomass in Spain has broken records in the number of stoves and boilers installed. Even with last year's low heating oil prices, biomass is much more competitive. The number of installed equipment, which is also increasingly more efficient and innovative, has grown by 56% in this period.

4750,000 tons of pellets

Regarding the consumption of pellet, the most demanded biofuel for domestic use, in these two years it has gone from 350,000 to 475,000 tons. "This is a true business opportunity for a sector that already invoices in Spain 3.7 billion eur, 0.34% of GDP," explains the director of the Expobiomasa, Jorge Herrero.

"Expobiomasa is the showcase of a strategic sector that evolves and grows at a very good rhythm in Spain. The fair - professional, international and specialized in leading biomass technology in EurOPA - has become over the years in the professional reference of the sector, also for Latin America," says Herrero.

Since 2006, thousands of professionals from 60 countries have passed through the Valladolid Fair, representing the entire value chain.

11th International Bioenergy Congress
Within the framework of the fair, the International Bioenergy Congress will be held on the 27th, which has become, after 11 editions, the technological benchmark for the sector at a national level. This year there will be speakers fully involved in the digitalization of their companies, which are at the same time pioneers, because they understand that society increasingly demands more personalized, economical and sustainable services and products.

Furthermore, in the sessions planned in the parallel program of Expobiomasa 2017, issues such as the new certification in biomass installation, the expansion of distributed heat networks, the keys to the implementation of energy services, the energy use of biomass in African projects, ENplus certification, biogas expectations, Mediterranean biofuels certification, the biomass business in Mexico, energy rehabilitation, urban regeneration, energy efficiency and decarbonization of buildings.