Madrid/Havana bakeries prepare to work with biomass and solar panels. The method has been successfully tested in the Dulceía Line and 12 bakery, located in El Vedado, and its workers claim that the specialists have certified the dog bread with which the experiment was conducted as a quality product.
Caribbean channel He reported this Sunday of the project, which will save huge amounts of diesel and gas to the food industry. “Daily, this oven that we are going to see now consumes around 80 kilos of diesel every day, is the minimum. Therefore, let’s multiply that for 385 days and that will be the result we are going to obtain,” said C. Alfredo Curbelo Alonso, researcher in Cuba Energía.
Those amounts, in each country bakery ascend to a strong dependent economic disbursement, in addition, the availability of the resource. On the other hand, this project implies the implementation of the furnaces from another type of fuel: Pellets from Moringa. The plant is one of the few things that abound in Cuba and from that idea a collaboration with Spain began, through companies and the University of Zaragoza with the International Development Cooperation Agency.
Those amounts, in each country bakery ascend to a strong dependent economic disbursement, in addition, the availability of the resource
The project began to be studied in 2022, as announced by the Spanish Biomass Association, by the Center for Research for Resources and Energy Consumption, which made the verifications on the suitability of the biomass of the moringa, the system and process of conversion of its woody remains in Pellets and its potential, among other things. All this allowed, in October 2024, the first factory of this type on the island.
In one Note published on the occasion of the opening From the center, the Spanish Association said that the woody remains of the moringa “rapidly growing and multiple applications” would become, instead of discarding, serving as a source of heat. The Ecofricalia company contributed the plant of Peletized Specific for Moringa Biomass and the Biocurve Company Las Calderas de Biomasa.
“Thanks to the use of biomass, the drying process is done with a lower energy cost compared to the electrical system that was being used,” said the press release. With this, the priori – the supply of the bakery furnaces will be guaranteed as a priori, as a result of the agreement with the Ministry of Food Industry and Cuba Energía. “Cuban experts and researchers highlight the valid of this proposal before the energy contingency facing the country. In addition, they value their importance in exceptional situations such as those caused by meteorological phenomena,” says the report.
In the report, the population is explained how the use of Pellets of wood, which have a high combustion power and are very easy to manipulate. The researcher Curbelo Alonso points out that what is going to begin in bakeries could extend to other larger industries, although in that case it will be necessary for the Pellets They are wooden splinters, “a little simpler to produce and more difficult to manipulate, but it is worth it.”
The objective is to transform the energy matrix from a resource with which the island counts in abundance. Last week, in an interview with Bloomberg Line, the expert of the University of Texas Jorge Piñón claimed precisely the use of biomass in Cuba as a substitute for the expensive national crude, of poor quality, although he proposed the cane as a base raw material.
The report is also mentioned the possibility of placing photovoltaic energy panels in all bakeries in the country in which possible
The report is also mentioned the possibility of placing photovoltaic energy panels in all bakeries in the country in which it is possible, so that the baked in the sun hours could be carried out. “This is a comprehensive project that is now proposed in the investment plans, which we are preparing for 2026, on the roofs of bakeries that have conditions to do so,” adds the engineer, who says he can guarantee “continuous productions for the population, without interrupting it due to lack of diesel.”
The shortage of flour and the poor state of the mills have caused One more crisis on the island: The bread of poor quality and diminishing size. To this is added the lack of electricity, which frequently puts in check the production of the product, causing panic in the population that desperately seeks to get it and lead no longer the authorities, but to the bakers themselves, to ration the sale several times, even in private businesses.
