Acciona Energía has started work on the 50MW Logrosán biomass plant in Extremadura, Spain.
Located 10km from the urban centre of the municipality, the Logrosán biomass plant will have a total of 200,000 square metres of surface, with just over half of the space dedicated to storage of the raw material.
The start of production is scheduled for the second half of 2025 and will reach 376GWh/year, avoiding the emission of more than 165,000 tonnes of CO2 per year into the atmosphere.
Acciona Energía was awarded the construction, operation and maintenance of the biomass plant in the third auction for the granting of the renewable energy economic regime convened by the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, which guarantees a sale price of the electricity that the plant produces for 20 years.
The annual consumption of the plant is estimated at 261,000 metric tonnes per year of biomass of agricultural and forestry origin coming mainly from the environment.
With this, the site is expected to boost the economy of the region, while contributing to fire prevention by encouraging the cleaning and clearing of the mountains and the pasture.
In addition, the biomass plant will generate almost 1,400 direct, indirect and induced jobs throughout its useful life cycle.
The project has accompanying plans to supervise the preservation and regeneration of the flora and fauna of the area, as well as a social impact management programme in the plant’s environment. ]
Among the actions that will be carried out is a training program to promote the hiring of local personnel, advice and qualification to the agro-livestock sector in the area and an entrepreneurship project aimed at supplying material for the plant.