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The Curtis-Teixeiro biomass plant will have a capacity of approximately 50MW, to be built on a plot of 103,000m2, and will generate 324GWh per year from forest waste collected within a radius of one hundred kilometres around the new installation. To produce this energy, the plant will use about 500,000 tonnes of forest biomass a year. The project will therefore contribute both to forest maintenance in the area and fire prevention, by encouraging the collection, for industrial use, of small-sized wood waste that is normally discarded. Once it becomes operational (planned for 2020), the Curtis-Teixeiro plant will increase energy generation from renewable sources and thus help to meet the targets of reducing carbon dioxide emissions set out in the National Action Plan of Renewable Energies (PANER) 2011-2020.