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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The small municipality of Cantaracillo in Salamanca (Spain), with only 193 inhabitants, will host a biogas plant that will transform the manure from local livestock farms into biomethane and organic amendments for agricultural use. In it, up to 150,000 tons of bovine manure will be treated each year, which, through an upgrading process, can be injected into the natural gas distribution network. More than 20...
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CARBIOW (Carbon Negative Biofuels from Organic Waste) is a Research and Innovation project funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe Programme that addresses the green transition and circular economy by proposing novel technologies that cover the entire process of converting organic waste into biofuels. From BIOPLAT we are in charge of its communication and dissemination with actions such as the launch of this...
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