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How to create a defensible energy balance: the first step before deciding anything

Auma - Genèric

How to create a defensible energy balance: the first step before deciding anything

An industrial plant receives two letters each year: one from the electricity company and one from the gas supplier. With these two figures, and a few more that depend on a conversion factor, 90% of en...

Consulting Decarbonisation Energy transition Engineering Industry Projects

1 Sept 2026 News

EIA and integrated environmental permit to expand a waste-to-energy plant

Marc Oliva Carbonell

EIA and integrated environmental permit to expand a waste-to-energy plant

auma is drafting the environmental impact assessment (EIA) and the documentation for the substantial modification of the integrated environmental permit (AAI) of a waste-to-energy plant in Camp de Tar...

Environment Industry Waste

31 Aug 2026 Success stories

Basic design and EIA to expand a hazardous waste treatment and biofuel production plant in the Canary Islands

Marc Oliva Carbonell

Basic design and EIA to expand a hazardous waste treatment and biofuel production plant in the Canary Islands

auma is drafting the basic design and the environmental impact assessment for the expansion of a hazardous waste treatment and biofuel production plant in Gran Canaria, commissioned by an industrial w...

Industry Waste

31 Aug 2026 Success stories

Solutions analysis for managing and restoring a saline mining waste deposit

Marc Oliva Carbonell

Solutions analysis for managing and restoring a saline mining waste deposit

auma is preparing, for a mining operator, the solutions analysis for managing a deposit of saline waste accumulated by extractive activity in Central Catalonia: an alternatives study combining the tec...

Environment Industry Waste

31 Aug 2026 Success stories

Energy audits of industrial plants and hospitals under Spain's RD 56/2016

Marc Oliva Carbonell

Energy audits of industrial plants and hospitals under Spain's RD 56/2016

auma delivered for an international certification body a programme of energy audits under Spain's RD 56/2016 at high-consumption facilities: food and beverage plants, automotive factories, chemical pl...

Decarbonisation Energy transition Industry

31 Aug 2026 Success stories

Before replacing the gas boiler: the three numbers that decide whether an industrial heat pump pays off

Marc Oliva Carbonell

Before replacing the gas boiler: the three numbers that decide whether an industrial heat pump pays off

auma’s method for deciding on process heat electrification before requesting quotations. We keep hearing the same question at very different plants: “does it make sense for us to electrify process heat?”. The honest answer is that it does not depend on the technology.

Decarbonisation Energy transition Engineering Industry

17 Aug 2026 News

Decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors: realistic engineering for a just transition

Marc Oliva Carbonell

Decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors: realistic engineering for a just transition

Cement, steel, chemicals or ceramics are not decarbonised with slogans: they are decarbonised with energy balances, abatement curves and a plan that leaves nobody behind.

Climate change Decarbonisation Energy transition Industry

22 Jul 2026 News

INNOVAE 2026 Programme: 115 million euros for industrial energy transformation

Marc Oliva Carbonell

INNOVAE 2026 Programme: 115 million euros for industrial energy transformation

Last June, the BOE (the Spanish Official State Gazette) published Order TED/569/2026, setting the regulatory bases of the INNOVAE Programme, the new non-repayable grant scheme of the IDAE for singular, innovative energy saving and efficiency projects.

Corporate & Finance Energy transition Industry

20 Jul 2026 News

Extension of CBAM to processed products: 3,900 new SMEs in Europe's carbon perimeter

Marc Oliva Carbonell

Extension of CBAM to processed products: 3,900 new SMEs in Europe's carbon perimeter

The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) has now been fully operational for six months. The European Commission now wants to extend it to processed products containing steel and aluminium, and the European Economic and Social…

Climate change Corporate & Finance Industry

7 Jul 2026 News

Atmospheric dispersion studies

Marc Oliva Carbonell

Atmospheric dispersion studies

Atmospheric dispersion studies: when they are essential and how to do them properly If noise is the environmental impact most easily forgotten until it shows up, air quality is the impact hardest to defend once it is questioned.

Air quality Engineering Environment Industry

2 Jul 2026 News

Acoustic studies

Marc Oliva Carbonell

Acoustic studies

When and why an acoustic impact study is needed: a guide for industries, developers and public administrations Noise is one of the most heavily regulated environmental impacts in Spain and, paradoxically, one of the most overlooked in the…

Air quality Engineering Environment Industry

30 Jun 2026 News

Green hydrogen in Spain in 2026: between industrial maturity and the challenge of real demand

Marc Oliva Carbonell

Green hydrogen in Spain in 2026: between industrial maturity and the challenge of real demand

On 28 January 2026, the government announced at the 4th Enagás Hydrogen Day the draft bill to create a national hydrogen system and a regulated market in Spain.

Developers Energy transition Industry Renewable energy

25 Jun 2026 News

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