Aranda de Duero will have a heating network similar to those in Valladolid and the Soria town of Ólvega

The mayor of Aranda de Duero (Burgos), Raquel González, visited the biomass thermal power plant that Rebi, an energy services company based in Soria, has built as part of the 'Heat Network' project. This project, in its first phase, already supplies thermal energy to more than 5,000 residents of Soria and some twenty public buildings. The mayor, accompanied by members of the municipal council, visited the plant to see firsthand a project that will soon be implemented in Aranda. The network planned for Aranda will be built by Rebi and will have the same characteristics as the two other networks it already operates: the Valladolid Heat Network, which connects some twenty university buildings, and the Heat Network in the Soria town of Ólvega, which has been running for three years.

The initiative is part of the commitment of the Regional Government of Castile and León to promote clean heating systems, with an investment of eight million eurthrough 2020. It will create ten direct jobs and arose from the need expressed by the mayor to make Aranda de Duero an energy-efficient municipality, and from Rebi's ability to identify the ideal customer for the network and the appropriate demand. Based on this premise, collaboration was sought with the construction company Peache and the Public Infrastructure and Environment Company of Castile and León (Somacyl).

The aim of the project is to extend the centralized heating network throughout the entire Civic Centre of Aranda and even reach the Residential Estate and other populated areas such as the La Estación neighborhood.

Although it is not yet completely finalized, the thermal power plant could be built in the northeast corner of the Civic Center Sector, on municipally owned land, a plot of 3,400 square meters near the bus station, located between the railway tracks, the newly opened Isabel I de Castilla street and the old Valladolid road.