Dalkia wins contract to build and operate the energy generation plant and district heating and cooling system for Barcelona’s Zona Franca, VEOLIA
Release Date: 2009-07-27
Dalkia has won the international call for tenders to build and operate for 30 years the energy generation plant and a new heating and cooling system for south Barcelona. The system will serve the La Marina, the Marcabarna wholesale market, the international exhibition center (Fira) in Gran Vía de L’Hospitalet and the City Metropolitana. It will be the first district heating and cooling network to provide centralized air conditioning for domestic use.
Cumulative forecast revenue comes to around €600 million. Over the lifetime of the project, the energy plants will produce more than 2.9 million MWh of power, 56% of this amount from renewable or recycled energy sources.
This ambitious project, chosen by the Barcelona City Hall, will significantly reduce CO2 emissions and will emit very few suspended particles. The improved energy efficiency and use of thermal solar systems will meet customers’ needs and provide them with high-quality service. The Barcelona City Hall, Enagás, the Institute for Diversification and Saving of Energy (IDAE) and the Catalan Energy Institute (ICAEN) are all partners in the operation.
The project is based on recovering and recycling cold energy from the Enagás regasification plant and on energy recovery from the thermal treatment of vegetation residue from the parks and gardens of Barcelona. With this proposed solution, Dalkia will reduce primary energy consumption of fossil fuels by 67,000 MWh per year, equivalent to the consumption of a city of 60,000 people, and cut CO2 emissions by 13,400 metric tons per year.
Dalkia’s Chairman, Olivier Barbaroux, stated:
« This contract, which will be exemplary in terms of energy and environmental efficiency, marks a new stage in our development in southern Europe. It is fully in line with our strategy of providing innovative, sustainable energy solutions to our municipal and industrial clients, comprising a progressively rising proportion of renewable energies.»
To keep pace with the district’s development, Dalkia has proposed a flexible solution, with modular infrastructure whose output will increase in step with rising energy demand. Initially, Dalkia will build a cogeneration plant using biomass from the parks and gardens of Barcelona. In the La Marina district, it will build a power plant and local district heating and cooling system to supply the first clients, especially in the La Marina residential neighborhood as well as the new pavilions for La Fira (Barcelona International Fair), the Porta Firal buildings and the Mercabrana wholesale market. For phase two, Dalkia will build the Zona Franca power plant, the district heating and cooling system, the cold energy recovery unit for the Enagás regasification plant and the cold transmission network (byproduct cold). Further developments will be implemented to keep pace with the development of the districts.
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