The information sent by Glefaran to the media is in response to a series of data provided by the Güeñes Bizia platform. For example, it has confirmed that the daily consumption of biomass is 230 tonnes – the platform pointed out that they use 350 tonnes – and has ensured that only the surplus post pruning and the residues of forest activities are used as raw material: pine, acacia, banana and eucalyptus, mainly.

According to the company, in this process they do not burn logs and 90% of the raw materials they use have their origin in 150 kilometers around the plant. “In an environment where more than 55% of the surface are trees, it is understood that forestry activity is strong and that waste is generated that wood and paper cannot absorb,” the company explains. As for the production process, he said that materials are burned, but not incinerated, but burned. “This difference is important because the plant does not use all kinds of waste, with the advantages that this entails.”

The Gueñes Bizia platform pointed out that such activities could not be less than five kilometers from the urban centers, referring to the criteria of the Spanish Higher Council of Scientific Research (CSIC). According to Glefaran, “no rule obliges to establish distance”. The company says that these kinds of workshops are located throughout Europe close to the areas inhabited by the citizens – he quoted Angers, Saint Denis, Dijon, Växjö, Périgueux and Limoges. In addition, Glefaran described the reference to CSIC as “malicious”, an organization that recognizes biomass as an alternative for energy generation, both from an environmental and economic and social point of view.

Glefaran has also pointed out that the company’s European emission measurement directive applies to them. This directive provides for restrictions on solid biomass plants for the two variables and particles of Oxides of Nitrogen from 2025, but this standard is already being complied with in Glefara, the press release has indicated. “In addition, Glefaran has a higher demand, the control of the particles that pour the plant is carried out continuously and confirmed by the corresponding government unit; the government knows the data at the same time as the company’s technicians”, notes the note.

For all these reasons, Glefaran has ensured that the company operates legally, that it produces renewable energy and that its emissions are within the standard of such a plant.