Energías renovables y espacio rural:la bioenergía en Castilla y León

Abstract

Renewable energies and rural areas: bioenergy in Castilla y León The rural area of Castilla y León has witnessed in the last two decades of a wide deployment of facilities for the production of wind and solar photovoltaic power. So, it has been shown the opening of these areas to innovation in the field of renewable energies, to the point that it has become the first region in installed capacity of wind power and the fourth in that of photovoltaic origin in Spain. It is the response to the new social demands and to the strong political commitment that have made of this region the main reference on the subject. In fact, these renewable energies have been the most studied branches from different disciplines, also from Geography. Missing, however, an update of what happened with bioenergy and, more specifically, with the role that the agricultural sector is playing in the solution of energy problems, not only in the agricultural dimension (energy crops), but also in the aspects derived from the livestock raising (biogas) or those from the forestry growth (forestry biomass). Clarify these topics in Castilla y León is the aim of the present paper.