On 14th December, the Promobiomasse project was presented in Maldà to a number of agents from the biomass sector in Cataluña. The main objective of the project was to promote the forest biomass energy market in the SUDOE (Southwestern Europe) territory, by developing a supply and demand management model that applies the “short circuit” concept in order to resolve the current problems: destructuring of supply; forest ownership divided into small holdings; inefficient exploitation methods; unknown and insufficient demand.
Partners from Navarra, Cataluña, Extremadura, Sud Occitanie, Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Región Norte, Portugal are taking part in POMOBIOMASSE. The Centre de Ciència i Tecnologia Forestal de Catalunya (CTFC) is to implement three action plans in Catalunya: models and techniques in the sustainable extraction of forest biomass; improvement in the working conditions in the forest and in the production of forest biofuels; and a plan for the short-circuit supply of biomass to municipal boilers.
