Las Navas del Marqués Municipality “Biorreg-Floresta Project”

Buena Práctica / Bonne Pratique /

Boa Prática

NOMBRE

NOM

NAME

Las Navas del Marques Municipality

“Biorreg-Floresta Project”

Localización

Localisation

Localização

Las Navas del Marqués is a municipality belonging to the province of Ávila, in the autonomous community of Castilla y León, Spain.

Tipología – Naturaleza

Typologie – Nature

Tipologia – Natureza

Forest management, logistics center and use of wood chips in municipal buildings.

Periodo de aplicación

Période d’application

Período de aplicação

2000-2006

515,000€ (77.78% European funds)

Principales objetivos

Principaux objectifs

Período de aplicação

To promote the use of forest waste for power generation, in addition to allowing the creation of new jobs in that rural area, contributing to the municipality’s energy independence and promoting the use of renewable energy sources.

Descripción detallada de la práctica o proyecto

Description détaillée de la pratique ou du projet

Descrição detalhada da prática ou projeto

The installed boiler provides heating and sanitary hot water to public buildings, through a circuit of pipes buried at a depth of one meter, conveniently sealed and insulated so that heat loss is minimal and its efficiency is very high. A modern boiler of 1,000 Kw of thermal power, of Danish origin, was installed, whose operation yields over 90% combustion efficiency, which guarantees that the fumes are practically negligible at the exit of the chimney, thus replacing the polluting diesel or electric boilers that fed these administrative buildings.

To close this circuit, it was left self-sufficient of the forest wastes of the mountains of the locality, because the chips that were used as fuel were acquired from a company specialized in recovery of wood of industrial and forest origin, at 10% of the value of diesel of heating in those moments. Montes de las Navas S.A. It worked to ensure that a good part of the remains generated in the forestry works of the mountain so that they could be used and consumed in this boiler. The Forest Management Project guaranteed that this energy use would be sustainable and compatible with the conservation of the mountain, since the waste generated in the ordinary wood cuts and the treatments that reduce the density in the young pine masses were used to avoid Fire spread and improve forest health.

Agentes involucrados

Agents impliqués

Agentes envolvidos

Provincial Energy Agency of Ávila
Atlantic Area: Spain, Portugal, France and Ireland

Evaluación de resultados

y lecciones aprendidas

Évaluation des résultats

et les leçons apprises

Avaliação de resultados

e lições aprendidas

City council workers are responsible for the work at Montes de las Navas S.A., since it is a 100% city council company. It is a legal instrument to enable the sale of wood chips produced to other entities. When the project started, Montes de las Navas S.A. was in charge of all handling work. However, since 2016 SOMACYL has been in charge of the transformation to pellet of the forest use produced by the company of Las Navas. They work via assignments, a legal instrument in which the city council entrusts work to SOMACYL. Las Navas city council is only responsible for loading the silo that feeds the boiler.

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