Roses adds three schools and the La Vinyassa football field to bioenergy
Roses has begun work on expanding the biomass heating network, which will allow the number of facilities in the town to be powered by this renewable and environmentally friendly energy to increase. The new installation will supply hot water and heating to the Montserrat Vayreda and Vicens Vives schools, the El Franquet kindergarten and the La Vinyassa football field, which will join the Municipal Swimming Pool, the Sports Pavilion and the Mas Oliva Municipal Stadium.
The construction work on the biomass heating network that supplies the sports facilities of Roses was completed in 2020. Since then, the thermal energy used in the municipal swimming pool, the multi-sports hall and the municipal stadium for the production of sanitary hot water for showers, for heating and for heating the swimming pools, comes from this biomass network, achieving an annual saving of 174 tons of CO2 in terms of greenhouse gas emissions and an economic saving of around €26,000 per year.
The project that has just begun will now allow the supply of domestic hot water and heating to the La Vinyassa football field and the Montserrat Vayreda school, by expanding the existing biomass network, as well as to the Vicens Vives school and the El Franquet kindergarten , in this case thanks to the incorporation of a new boiler. These facilities currently use diesel, natural gas and solar energy for their domestic hot water production systems.
The entire project therefore includes the expansion of the existing heat network, the installation of a new 400kw biomass boiler , the corresponding hydraulic installation, the connections to the set of equipment for heat distribution and the expansion of the boiler room with the corresponding silo.
Add equipment gradually
The councilor for Public Services and Infrastructures of Roses, Lluís Espada, highlights " the forecasting of the project, where special attention has been paid to sizing the new facilities so that they include the necessary spaces for the future incorporation of a new boiler that will allow the Cap Norfeu Institute and the CAP of Roses to be provided with heating and hot sanitary water . However, the heating network pipe has also been sized for these possible future consumptions. "
Financed by the Next Generation Funds
With this project, the council is advancing the actions planned in the Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan (PAESC) of the Cap de Creus 2 landscape unit to which Roses belongs. The project has a total budget of €677,600 and an execution period of 10 months.
This action is part of the project "The tourist transformation of Roses, Regeneration Tourism Roses" of the Roses City Council co-financed through the Next Generation EU Funds, specifically within the Tourism Sustainability Plans in Destinations (PSTD) program, subsidies intended for the digital transformation and modernization of local entity administrations, extraordinary call 2021, promoted by the Ministry of Industry and Tourism.
