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La cogeneración, clave en la producción eléctrica de biomasaFor 2020 foresees that 67% of the generation of electricity with biomass correspond to cogeneration.
The Spanish Association of Cogeneration (Receive) has claimed the use of this technology for the generation of electricity with biomass. According to the report of the association Situation and perspectives in the Plan of Renewable Energies for 2020, in 2010, of the 501 megavatios (Mw) of electrical power produced with biomass, 238 Mw were applications with cogeneration.
As it gives off of this study, the production of electricity with biomass in 2010 was of 2,424 Gwh of which practically the half produced in cogeneration. The perspectives of production to the closing of 2011 aimed a growth of 15% in all the generation with biomass, although the cogenerada will situate (to the complete closing of the exercise) in similar figures to the ones of 2010.
