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Spain: Mahou San Miguel brewery switches to biomass with a 20 MW heat plant

The brewer has opened a 20 MWth biomass plant in Alovera (Guadalajara) that will use around 30,000 t/yr of forest and agricultural biomass and is expected to cut the site's direct CO₂ emissions by up to 95%.

Agricultural biomassForest biomassProjects and plantsSource : AVEBIOM
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On-farm grass biorefinery coupled with anaerobic digestion opens in Ireland

A demonstrator of the EU-funded Rural BioReFarmeries project, the €3m facility near Bandon (County Cork) splits fresh grass into a fibre-rich press cake and juice, with other streams going to anaerobic digestion.

Agricultural biomassProjects and plantsSource : CBE JU — Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking