Since we research on the cultivation of cereals, we have observed that, in spite of part of the cereal straw is being sent to a nearby biomass plant for energy production, other part of this straw, presumably the furthest from the biomass plant, is treated as waste and burned at the field, thus contributing to the emission of greenhouse gases and ignoring a local and renewable source of energy.A solution to this problem might be burying the straw to favour the C/N relation in the soil but wheat growers are reluctant to do so for they report it takes too long for the straw to decompose and it complicates the seeding1 and a homogeneous fertilization of the soil.On the other hand, there is a need for the implementation of renewable energies that at least partially replace the use of fossil fuels2.The main aim of the study we suggest is thus to determine a technologically, environmentally and economically viable way to obtain energy through the waste-considered straw and avoid its burning at the field. On a first approach to fulfil this aim, bibliographical research was made and interviews with the Foral Deputation of Alava and a local engineering company with experience on power-plants, were held to try to ascertain the quantity of straw burnt on the fields of Alava.Some 14000003,4 tons of cereal straw were produced in Alava in 2012 but we could obtain no information on how much of thisstraw is finally burnt on the field. We propose the collaboration with the Foral Deputation of Alava to record the quantity of straw to be burnt on the field and ascertain its quality parameters in relation to combustion and pelletization.