Market of the biomass: of big or of children?

The origin and the use of the biomass has multiple variants. To understand the possibilities that the biomass offers us as sustainable energy source, we can contemplate the following uses or ways of consuming it, and diverse ways of being present on the market of the biomass. Finally we are before diverse markets related between themselves:

• Pellets: for domestic cauldrons, single-family housings, neighbors' communities, state buildings … The pellets can have diverse origins and thermal capacities; from remains of prunings, garbage of the wood industry, remains lignocelulósicos of the agriculture, wood proceeding from cultivation for biomass, etc.
• Bones and rinds of fruits: in gross like combustible for cauldrons
• Cauldrons: installation and maintenance of cauldrons (domestic or industrial status)
• Facilities of cold and centralized heat
• Electrical production from the gasification of the biomass

About all these questions one will speak in V Congress of Bioenergy inside the frame Expobioenergía 2010 that will be celebrated in Valladolid in next October, both from the technical point of view and from the business point of view. For whom is it more profitable?: for the consumer for the economic saving, for the fitter / president of the calederas, for the producer of pellets, for the electrical companies that use the biomass to generate electricity …

Meanwhile we are present at contradictions as in the Basque locality of Errigoiti where the citizens are opposed to the installation of a head office of biomass to produce electricity. The reasons are the contamination by smokes of the head office and the noise that it would produce. It surprises me that the noises are a problem, in any case, as for the contamination, if we all put in the attitude of quela ours electricity it is generated by others that here it bothers, we are going to end up by illuminating ourselves with sails.

In León they use 1500 tons of pruning of the city to produce compost, but they have thought that better if they can use them to make pellets. I wonder where from they will extract later the compost.

And finally in a locality of Corunna Natural gas considers to install a head office of electrical generation with biomass whenever he could have the quantity of necessary biomass during the whole year.