About 700,000 tons of biomass residue from the pruning of olive trees in a plantation in Jaen, Spain is reportedly generated each year. The biomass residues are mainly branches and leaves from pruned olive trees. The Spanish Union of Small Farmers (UPA) of Jaen sees this as a resource for electrical power generation. The cooperative is finding ways to derive economic benefit from this resource. Utilization of olive-tree biomass into electrical energy may involve a direct combustion process in a processing plant. The UPA study shows that it would be "profitable to cut, chop and collect the olive branch prunings in the olive grove and transport them to the processing plant" for a cost of 50 euros per ton. In order to reduce the cost of transporting the biomass to a processing plant that is 30 kilometers away, the use of agricultural cooperatives as centers for the biomass collection, organization and logistics of each district, is being eyed. The construction of additional and strategically located processing plants, are also being considered..