Biomass

Biomass is any renewable combustible of vegetal or animal origin, including the use of forestry and agricultural residues. Pellet boilers (which are the waste from forestry and wood industries, crushed and pressed into small cylinders) consume a green and renewable fuel that doesn't contribute to the greenhouse effect and is a helpful choice for the environment.

Distintos tipos de biomasa

Spain is a big country with large quantities of available biomass: from industrial waste, forestry and agricultural pruning, olive pits, almond and hazelnut shells...

It is a renewable source, because there is a renewed production every year and it's currently treated as a waste.
CO2 emissions are neutral.
It creates jobs, promotes rural employment.
It helps to keep our forests and fields clean and contributes to the recycling of industrial waste by giving them an added value.

It is a source with a great future in our country.

Calorific value of biomass:

Biomass	Heating power
Olives bones	4,6 – 5,5 kw/kg
Pellets	4,3 – 4,8 kw/kg
Almond Shells	5,4 kwh/kg
Splinters	3,3 – 4 kwh/kg
Pruning remains	3,3 – 4kwh/kg

Prices are regulated by the laws of the market, free of monopolies and oligopolies. In the chart below we can see how it's cheaper to produce energy from biomass than from Diesel.