Biological gas “explodes” in Spain

First, wind farms, then solar orchards and now are the role of biomed gas production plants from organic waste treatment. Moving to more ecological energy production model, with less Heat emissions, andIt mainly depends on these three legs. But unlike winds and photo mixing, green gas is still awaiting development in our country. Although 2025 seemed to be the final year for its publication, everything indicates that it will not be an easy way.

In its plans, the sector had no factor that could disrupt the development of the fashion vector, that is, the strong opposition of the neighborhood that the promoters of these plants faced in dozens of Spanish municipalities.

The proximity of urban cores in some cases, the dimensions of projects in others and the fear of bad smells and the toxicity of the environment in each of them have raised even the creation of organized platforms against this energy alternative. Again, solving an environmental problem becomes the problem.

The remaining weight in the power mix

To date, only 11 of a vital or ethane manufacturing factory works, the latter obtained from the first purification. Most of them are associated with industrial, agricultural, or, on the specified date, to Great waste burials.

In them they receive a waste of organic origin – in the manufacture of nutrients, mortar, alpine, purification sludge, etc. – in large cabinets, undergoing the treatment of decomposition similar to the beating of human digestion. From this process, natural fertilizers are obtained – digestion “Digestato”a, biological gas and biological gas.

The former serves directly to the agricultural sector; The latter can be used in industrial facilities as an energy source or injecting them directly to the current network of natural gas. Moreover, it can be stored and played a supplementary role for other non -navigable energies – for me and sunlight – when missing.

Biological gas contains the same caloric properties as the latter, but without an invoice Pollution. This quality, which has been added to the fact that it is partially independent to Spain from Russian gas imports, explains the motivation that, from the Spanish government and the European Union itself, explains to give this source to energy to exploit it.

The Ecological Transition Minister, Sarah Aiden, realized that the energy “now focuses more on biometric” when I was asked about it Nawawi’s future. Francisco Rennis, CEO of Nature, also announced his “short -term commitment” to this headmaster, which sees “the most effective option to accompany the industry in carbon removal.” This high environment is added to the upcoming funds that Europe directs to the construction of these plants.

The goal of a distant strength

While this context pushes the fruits, the scenario is of relative importance to this energy source. According to the data provided to this newspaper by the same sector, the energy resulting from dozens of active plants, run by Nedgia (Nature), Enagás and Ridexis, is 310 Gigawatts per hour (GW/H).

With this number, only 0.10 % of the national natural gas demand is covered. “There is still a comparison number of countries like Germany or France,” says Luis Bushids, president of the Spanish Biogás Association (ABIG. But this number can grow dramatically. “With adequate publishing, Spain can multiply its production and reduce the adoption of fossil fuels,” the sector spokesman, the goal after all.

In 2022 Biogás Road Map in Spain. But its development is late. The goal of 2030 to produce 20 Tevatios-Hora (Tw/H) is very far in the year that was distinguished by the recent review of the National Energy and Climate Plan (PNIEC) if we consider that TERAVATIO is not currently reached. We are 0.5 Tw/H a year in biomed gas production, according to the European Biological Gas Association.

At this stage of the lack of this energy carrier, the real need for Organic waste management Through the law, all member states are obligated to assemble separately and deal properly to obtain resources from 2025, and have caused economic incentives in the real hatching of projects.

You can almost say, according to Fernando Valdaris, one of the scientists of the climate reference exchange in our country and a member of one of the live protest platforms.

Causes of real hatch

From AEBIG, this position is recognized but placed in the deaf. Puchades explains that there are more than 150 projects, but in different treatment stages and construction will be achieved based on whether all administrative and environmental requirements have been met.

This means that this reality does not necessarily mean that Spain will have the number of operating plants soon. On the contrary, ABIG president estimates that the path of everything as planned, “can be new biomithm plants by 2025” dozens. In any case, it will be weak.

One of the most popular cases of how to present a large factory project for vital facts by Brooks with the municipal reality raised by the Acta in Copas de la Sagra, despite the presence of a favorable environmental report from the Madrid community, the energy has finally abandoned the project by not obtaining the necessary urban permits by the city council.

Something similarly happened in Guarromán (Jaén), where the goal was to treat ALPECHíN waste that already overwhelmed the atmosphere of this Andalusian region.

The Madrid issue is the sign showed by the new neighborhood platforms that were formed to put pressure against these facilities and screaming that you can do against this industry. According to the information transmitted by the organization Stopping industrial livestockThere are 75 associations formed in different parts of the country and ranged from Lugo to MURCIA, through two Castillas and Andalusia. In short, rural Spain that does not want to lose the quality of their lives to treat foreign waste.

Neighborhood is asking about what science requests: that the plants become adjusted with the logical size of the management of organic waste directly from the vicinity. “

Fernando Valdaris

Csic world

One of the last of which has jumped to the public sphere is the construction of a large vital plant among the municipalities in Kulmnar Vigo and three songs in Madrid society. Valdaris enhances protests against the project, which already has environmental approval from the regional government. It will be located one kilometer from the urban core of the first city and about three of the second.

In this case, the neighbors’ arguments are copied in all cases: bad smell, waste transport, risk of accidental leaks or pollution … but above all, the key is in the size of the project.

“The problem is the environment, health, social and security,” Valsaris insists. In recognition of the importance of enhancing the transition towards Circular Where waste is used, what is criticized is the “huge size”. What citizens ask is “what science and a good sense requires.” That is: plants are set on the logical size of organic waste management that occurs directly in the vicinity, “not dozens and even hundreds of kilometers.”

For the platform that merges the famous Spanish world, the imposed standards are economic profitability, not the environment, nor the environment.

“Plants have protected deposits, a vital filtration system, and gas wash. With adequate management, the smells are not present »

Luis Potshadis

President of the Spanish Biogás Association (AEBIG)

In AEBIG, they realize the growing neighborhood opposition and believe that it is “essential to preparing the debate about real and explained data and combating the absence of sincere information and wrong perceptions that can generate unfounded rejection.”

The sector defends that this model is working successfully in Europe and that platforms have an opinion on the napkins in this position: “There are dozens of cases in which people were forced to move and leave their house, which was able to do so, because it becomes unbearable” with a factory, which is a sentence Valdaris. “From the Gase Cocktail, we must clean, among other things, the sulfur, from which a smell is emitted … no longer an annoying smell, it is poisoning.”

Puchades admits this Scents It is a “repeated source of anxiety” but defends that plants have protected deposits, vital filtering and washing gas, eliminating unpleasant smell vehicles.

“With adequate management, the smells do not exist,” they defend, and they put for example the new projects operating in Europe. Before the granting of permits is sufficient guarantee for neighbors, ABIG says. As for the latter, Valdaris, “reports from companies and Spain are the European country where environmental laws are violated.”

Disgusting administrative response

The truth is that the response of the various departments is different. While in some societies such as Madrid gets approval, in other cases, the exact opposite. This was the last case of the second deputy of the Communities Council Castilla-La ManchaJose Manuel Kabaliro, who publicly defended “the right of municipalities to reject the biomethan plants”, and puts an example of the city of Carion de Katalava in its management to avoid confirmation in its municipality.

In Logo, where the population of the diocese of Coeses, two kilometers from the city, gave the battle, the project did not exceed the environmental evaluation, in this case, through the spills to the Miño that is considering the project.

It is what they refer to from ABIG, that projects that do not meet will not get permits. However, although it defends that “these facilities have a much lower effect than industrial activities or other agricultural activities that do not have the ability to properly treat waste”, the recognition of brakes that involve the lack of a unique administrative standard.

“From AEBIG, we demand greater simplification and clarity in the regulations because the administrative procedures at the present time to develop new long and complex factories differ between independent societies, which generates uncertainty,” Boucchasz concludes.