Serra Municipality

Buena Práctica / Bonne Pratique /

Boa Prática

NOMBRE

NOM

NAME

Serra Municipality

Localización

Localisation

Localização

Serra is a municipality of the Valencian Community, Spain. Belonging to the province of Valencia, in the region of Campo de Turia in the Natural Park of the Sierra Calderona.

Tipología – Naturaleza

Typologie – Nature

Tipologia – Natureza

Forest management, logistics center, use for boilers and commercialization.

Periodo de aplicación

Période d’application

Período de aplicação

2010-2017

Principales objetivos

Principaux objectifs

Período de aplicação

• Use of green energies

• Forest mangament

• Economic savings by the City Council

• Employment creation

Descripción detallada de la práctica o proyecto

Description détaillée de la pratique ou du projet

Descrição detalhada da prática ou projeto

The city council collects forest wastes from its area (they are an important danger to fires) and converts them into pellets in their own facilities. Part of the production is dedicated to the municipality´s own facilities, part for the neighbors and what is left over for the foreign market.

Agentes involucrados

Agents impliqués

Agentes envolvidos

Serra Municipality
LIFE PROGRAMME

Evaluación de resultados

y lecciones aprendidas

Évaluation des résultats

et les leçons apprises

Avaliação de resultados

e lições aprendidas

• Average annual savings in green waste management: € 25,000.

• Average annual energy savings: € 22,000.

• Total pellet production capacity the first year: 300 tons.

• Total pellet production capacity: 800-1,000 tons.

• Total reduction of CO2 emissions per year: 350 tons.

• Protected hectares p through forest fire prevention work: 130 ha.

• Employment created in wood pellet production plant and biomass extraction: 5 people.

 Good forest harvesting practices

 Short circuit

 Entrepreneurship giving added value to the pellet with its commercialization

 Promotion of the creation of local employment.

Currently, the Serra project wants to participate in a LIFE project in order to improve certification, increase production and marketing of the pellet.

They produce 300 tons, in a design for 800 tons. The city council uses more or less half and the rest is commercialized. To market the pellet the city council works with legal instruments. In this case it uses the payment by fees, as if they were municipal services. Later this implies a declaration of income to the city council in the documents of the Treasury.

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