Santamaría questions the economic benefits of biofuels in Spain



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## Santamaría questions the economic benefits of biofuels in Spain

04/09/2016 |
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The study developed by Marta Santamaría, of the Department of Energy of the CIEMAT (Centre of Energetic Investigations, Environmental and Technological), on the analysis cost benefit of the biofuels in Spain in the period 2008-2020 confirms his environmental value, especially in the case of the bioetanol, but puts in doubt his advantages partner-economic because of several factors like his high cost and the trip of employments to sectors that generate less value added. Santamaría has exposed the study during the last day of the course of summer of the Universitat Jaume I “Tools for the analysis of the sustainability of energetic systems”.

Unlike other renewable energies, the cost of the biofuels is not foreseen that it go down in the next years “since it is not a question of technological development, but of cost of prime matter”, has explained Santamaría. Another problem in economic terms of the biofuels, according to this study, is that they generate put of work in sectors like the agriculture, but by the expense of reducing employments in others with some levels of income higher and with a greater value added like the services or the energy.

The study concludes that the biofuels generate an important improvement of the environmental quality, especially the bioetanol used in proportions of mix with petrol very high, upper to 85%. In this sense, Santamaría has signalled like a problem the fact that 80% of the mobile park in Spain consummates diesel since the environmental profits of the biodiesel are not so high. Likewise, it has indicated that all the oil that uses to produce biodiesel matters since, by the moment, “Spain does not have capacity to be competitive in the production of oil for biodiesel”.

Regarding the energetic dependency, the author of the study considers that the biofuels do not constitute a solution to the problem of the courts of supply and neither solve the problem in front of a rise of the price of the oil because of his high cost. Santamaría has concluded his exhibition standing out the need that this type of works take into account to the hour to design the energetic politics.

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