The mayor of Aranda de Duero (Burgos), Raquel González, has visited the biomass thermal power plant that the Soria energy services company Rebi has built in Soria in the 'Heat Network' project, which already supplies thermal energy to more of 5,000 Sorianos and twenty public buildings in its first phase. The reason for the visit of the first mayor, who has been accompanied by part of the rest of the municipal corporation, is to learn first-hand and in the place of a project that will be extrapolated to the Arandina town soon. The Network projected in Aranda will be executed by Rebi, and will have the same characteristics as the other two that are already in operation; the Valladolid Heat Network, which links twenty buildings of the University, and the Heat Network of the Soria town of Ólvega, which has been in operation for three years.
The initiative is part of the commitment that the Government of Castilla y León is making to promote clean heat systems with an investment of eight million euros until 2020. A dozen direct jobs will be created, it was born from the need that it placed on the mayor's board of making Aranda de Duero an energy efficient municipality, and of the possibility for Rebi to find the typical client of the Network and the appropriate demand. Under this premise, the collaboration of the construction company Peache and the Public Society of Infrastructure and Environment of Castilla y León (Somacyl) has been sought.
The aim of the project is to extend the centralized heating network throughout the entire Aranda Civic Center and even reach the Residential Estate and other populated areas such as the La Estación neighborhood.
Although it is not yet completely closed, the thermal power plant could be built at the northeast end of the Civic Center Sector, on municipally owned land, a plot of 3,400 square meters next to the bus station, between the railroad tracks, the street new opening Isabel I of Castile and the old road to Valladolid.
