The I BioCircular Summit brings together industry leaders to promote biocircularity in Spain

The I BioCircular Summit kicked off its first edition on 11 February 2025 with a programme that analysed the essential political, regulatory and strategic elements to boost the biocircularity sector in Spain. Organised by the Spanish Biocircularity Association (BIOCIRC) and the Spanish Technological and Innovation Platform for Biocircularity (BIOPLAT), the already widely recognised as ‘the key meeting of the sector’ brought together more than 200 participants including experts, business professionals, institutional representatives, the scientific-technological and academic community, as well as actors from the primary and secondary sectors, to address the present and future of all biocircularity subsectors.

The different agents in this forum agreed on the importance of the biocircularity sector due to its real capacity to dephosphorylate with solutions whose implementation is already possible. They all advocated the need to underpin biocircularity among the three renewables with the greatest potential to advance the energy and ecological transition in the country. They underlined the possibility of doing so immediately, while also favouring industrialisation, competitiveness and the strategic autonomy of the state, all of which are essential in the current geopolitical and economic context.

In turn, they identified large-scale bioenergy to solve decarbonisation problems in the industrial area and the primary and secondary sectors as key to successfully integrating the entire biocircularity value chain. Biomethane was defined as fundamental for implementing renewable gases in household and industrial consumption. It became clear that a country project for Spain is to lead an industry of production and consumption of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) for the decarbonisation of the aviation sector and in detriment of foreign energy dependence. Finally, the ‘absolutely brilliant’ future of bioproducts was highlighted. Special mention was made of the need to integrate all the public-private agents with interests and competences in the sector in order to make progress in biocircular solutions, given the marked transversality of the sector and its valuable implications, both environmental and socio-economic, which transcend the ecological transition itself and are strategic for the whole of Spain.

At the I BioCircular Summit, the updated analysis of biomass potential in Spain was presented, a work carried out by the Regulation Department at BIOCIRC. This study, which will be published soon, reveals the country’s enormous potential in this resource and the need to promote its valorisation. The Association’s Sustainability Department presented the prices of biomass raw materials in the national and international context and the factors that influence them, as well as an analysis of the evolution of the market in recent years.