Ence's renewable energy plants certify the sustainability of their biomass through the Sure standard

Ence's renewable energy generation plants with biomass in Villanueva del Arzobispo (Jaén) and Villarta de San Juan (Ciudad Real) have completed the audit process of the Sure verification scheme , which guarantees the full sustainability of the biomass consumed in its facilities , mainly orujillo – remains derived from the treatment of olives for oil extraction –, a local biomass that is very abundant in the surroundings.

The development of certification audits was carried out successfully and had the recognition of the certifier, which congratulated Ence for the intensa and detailed implementation work initiated by the company's sustainability team more than a year ago. With the completion of the process of verification of the standard requirements, these two plants become part of the group of facilities certified by the southern scheme in Eur OPA .

Last July, the generation plant with Ence Biomass in Mérida and the company's biophabrica in Pontevedra , became the two pioneering facilities in Eur OPA to obtain this certification, turning Ence into the first company of the continent to initiate the process of verification of the sustainability of its biomass by this standard.

Badge has once again been the entity responsible for auditing the process , since it is the only Spanish company recognized and authorized by the southern scheme to perform this service. The Sure Verification Scheme is one of the tools developed to ensure compliance with the requirements of the Renewable Energy Directive (EU) 2018/2001 (REDII), a eur OPEA regulation that establishes various criteria that must meet all the biomass used in the bioenergy sector, focused on guarantee Greenhouse and energy efficiency.

Ence thus takes another step in promoting the certification of all the biomass used in its facilities , the completion of which it hopes to achieve at the end of the second half of the year, when the audits in its Navia biofactory and in the rest of the plants have been completed. of independent renewable energy generation that it has in Andalusia and Castilla-La Mancha.