The Official Gazette of Castilla y León (Bocyl) today publishes the extract of the call for aid, “with which the Board intends to contribute to the transition towards a low-carbon economy in all productive and social sectors, within the framework of the Energy Efficiency Strategy 2016-2020, which has been subject to citizen participation in Open Government.
According to the Castilian-Leonese Government, thank you these incentives may finance improvements in facilities thermal and light (provided that an energy saving of at least 20% is accredited), such as interventions on elevators or escalators, when the reduction in energy consumption is at least 30
Communities of owners can participate in these subsidies to carry out works on buildings built after January 1, 1981 and non-profit associations or entities. The properties subject to the reform must be registered in the Registry of Energy Efficiency Certificates of Castilla y León, except for the exceptions detailed in the call.
The individual amount of aid per project ranges between 15% and 30% of the accepted investment, depending on the savings achieved energy. Projects that justify a better energy ratio will obtain a higher score in the evaluations - understood as the cost of the improvement between the savings it entails - and those executed in buildings with smaller surface.
Priority for projects in rural areas and in mining municipalities (efficiency)
The selection criteria will give priority to initiatives developed in areas with demographic challenges –favoring towns with a smaller population–, in the 81 localities defined in the Economic Revitalization Plan of the Mining Municipalities, those promoted by communities of owners and those that favor the employment of people with disabilities.
The call includes the financing of works of improvements started from January 1, 2014, as long as they have not concluded at the time of registering the request, and the deadline for executing the reforms will end on October 15. With this order, the Ministry of Economy and Finance complements those published the past months of June and December, which regulated aid aimed at companies for this same purpose and had a joint budget of two million euros.
Applications will be processed exclusively by telematic means, through an authorized installer or collaborator registered in the corresponding registry, or directly through the AYAE application, available at the electronic headquarters of the Board, www.tramitacastillayleon.jcyl.es. Information on the call can be consulted at www.energia.jcyl.es.
Luckily the administrations are realizing the savings involved in investing in energy efficiency, another example is the city of Olot, located in the province of Girona.
Olot (Girona) creates the first air conditioning network based on three renewable energies
The Olot City Council, capital of the Garrotxa region in Catalonia, has just launched the first renewable trigeneration air conditioning network. It has been inaugurated by the president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont. The system, which supplies heat, cold and electricity in the center of Olot and has an automated intelligent control system, it has been executed by a Temporary Union of Companies of Gas Natural Fenosa and Wattia.
The project makes this city of La Garrotxa the first in Spain with a trigeneration system for renewable energies: the system combines technology from geothermal, photovoltaic and biomass. According to the company, «two factors make Olot the ideal location to develop this pioneering project: first, it is an area technologically involved in energy sustainability and, second, the municipality has a dense forest mass ».
The network serves a total of 7 equipments: the old Sant Jaume Hospital (the Sant Jaume residence and the commercial premises), the La Garrotxa Regional Museum, the Caritat, the Municipal Market, the Montsacopa residence, the Casal de la Gent Gran of the municipality and Can Monsà. The hot and cold air conditioning network has an approximate length of 1.800 meters that allow air conditioning of the 40.000 square meters of surface of the buildings to which they are connected.
The new hot and cold infrastructure will save every year to the citizens of Olot the equivalent of 750 tons of carbon dioxide emissions, an amount that 290 hectares of forest should absorb, and will also reduce the energy bill.
«Taking advantage of the works of the new Olot Market, they built 24 geothermal wells in the basement of the square, and work began on the design of the installation of the photovoltaic solar panels and the Energy Room, located in the old facilities of the Olot Hospital ». In this room -continues the Consistory-, two boilers have been installed biomass of 450 and 150 kilowatts of powerrespectively three geothermal pumps of sixty kilowatts each, two accumulators of hot water of 8.000 liters each, "as well as the system of impulsion and control of the network that supplies energy to a total of 7 equipments". The City Council estimated a saving of around 10% compared to the cost of current non-renewable energy sources.