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

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 bet that the Junta de Castilla y León is doing for promoting clean heat systems with an investment of eight million euruntil 2020. A dozen direct jobs will be created, was born of the need that the mayor made on the table to make Aranda de Duero an energetically efficient municipality, and of the possibility by Rebi of finding the client type of the network and adequate 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.