05 Feb 2024
BIOPLAT held its annual Assembly on 2 February, at which the Spanish Biocircularity Association – BIOCIRC, a spin-off of BIOPLAT dedicated to working on policies, markets and fostering business cooperation to strengthen the development of the sector in Spain, was presented. BIOCIRC was created as the only business association that will encompass the entire sector and provide sustainable solutions in the field of biocircularity: bioenergy,...
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26 Jan 2024
We have a lot to tell at the next BIOPLAT Assembly: #SomosBiocircularidad. Join us at this event that will mark a before and after for the sector in Spain. Afterwards, attendees will be invited to an aperitif overlooking the city of Madrid. REGISTRATION is open for interested members and professionals.
22 Jan 2024
For the past decade, the residents of Sabando, a small council in the mountains of Alava, have been heated in winter and have hot water all year round without having to worry about the price of gas or diesel, thanks to having one of the first biomass community heating systems installed in Spain. Its mayor, Ángel Marcos Pérez de Arrilucea, explains that before deciding on...
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15 Jan 2024
On 22 January 2024, at 10 h, Bioplat, in collaboration with the Agencia Estatal de Investigación, is organising a webinar to present the main aspects of the call for public-private collaboration projects 2023. This call of the State Plan for Scientific, Technical and Innovation Research 2021-2023 was published on 29 December, and is scheduled to open on 30 January 2024. The objective of the grants is to support experimental...
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08 Jan 2024
Today’s environmental challenges are multiple and far-reaching. Climate change, as a global priority, has just been revisited at #COP28, underlining, once again, the need to move towards decarbonisation by increasing renewable energy sources and improving energy efficiency. Likewise, concepts such as the bioeconomy based on the use of resources of biological origin are already part of our vocabulary, as well as the need to guarantee...
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19 Dec 2023
Galicia is leading a European project whose objective is to promote the creation of biomass-based energy communities in rural areas as a viable alternative for the production of local energy from the use of the resources of the surrounding mountains. Specifically, these communities include biomass heat networks complemented with photovoltaic energy in the model villages of the municipalities of Cerdedo-Cotobade (Parada-Mouteira) and Monterrei (Infesta), for...
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11 Dec 2023
Javier Ponce, General Director of CDTI Innovation, an organization dependent on the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, participated on November 22 in the Spain-Thailand Innovation & Tech Dialogue: Healthy and Sustainable Food Products & Processes conference, which was held in Bangkok with the aim of generating a dialogue platform that allows Spanish entities in the food sector to show their capabilities and innovations in...
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28 Nov 2023
The Technology Alert service of the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office provides a daily updated list of the most recent publications of patent applications worldwide on biofuels, bioenergy and bio-based products. The thematic areas of this technology alert have been established in collaboration with BIOPLAT in order to respond to the specific information needs of companies and research organisations in the aforementioned technology sectors. The...
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15 Nov 2023
The Coordination Committee of Spanish Energy Technology Platforms (CCPTE), of which GEOPLAT is a member, organised its annual meeting on 15 November under the title ‘Debate between different technologies from the perspective of innovation and value creation’. The event was welcomed by Mª Ángeles Ferre, Head of the Scientific-Technical Thematic Programmes Branch of the State Research Agency. Two round tables were held; the first, comprising...
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13 Sep 2023
Lummus Technology, a value-focused process technologies and energy solutions company, has unveiled the commercial availability of its revolutionary ethanol-to-biojet or sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) conversion technology. This innovative technology promises to be a game changer in reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the aviation industry. Ethanol to SAF technology offers a safe and reliable solution by integrating ethanol to ethylene (EtE), olefin oligomerisation and hydrogenation technologies...
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