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Ategrus organizes a new edition of bioenergy coinciding with the fair generates

06/02/2008

February 6, 2008

Association technique for the management of waste and the environment, Ategrus, carried out on 28 February the Conference 'Bioenergy 2008' on the grounds of Ifema in Madrid, coinciding with the fair generates, international exhibition of energy and the environment.

The excessive and growing foreign energy dependence of Spain, the commitments made by the Kyoto Protocol and the fluctuations of the oil market make it necessary to take urgent measures to save energy and promote alternative sources of energy. While energy demand doesn't grow, so does the concern of the citizens by protecting their environment, so increasingly more seek new avenues for energy production environmentally friendly with the environment. All existing renewable energy today, some have already developed relatively acceptable in Spain, such as wind energy or solar thermal. But other sources of energy with enormous potential, such as biomass, don't get even the desirable attention.

This event will coincide with the business meeting ' eco 2008: building a renewable future ' which will take place on 27 and 28 February also in Ifema. This meeting is an initiative of the European Union, who financed it partially. The purpose of the day Al - invest is to encourage, facilitate and promote trade agreements of long duration (distribution, representation, etc.), investment, transfer of technology and ventures between companies of the European Union and Latin America. The aim of these events will be organizing personalised interviews and achieve commercial contacts between European and Latin American companies that move to Madrid. For the moment they have 15 Latin American businessmen and 80 European entrepreneurs.

In addition, this year Ategrus calls the second edition of the Bioenergy 2008 awards. This award is an attempt to assess and to distinguish the actions carried out by municipalities and companies to implement renewable energy (electricity, heat, cold, mechanical work) from biomass and the use of biofuels (biodiesel, bioalcohol, biogas, BTL, etc.)rewarding the efforts and achievements in order to stimulate technological advances and the introduction of facilities for the production and recovery of biomass in the Spanish municipalities.