The thermal infrastructure, which is fed with forest biomass in an 90%, has 13 million investment
Nasuvinsa, la public company of housing and urban planning of the Government of Navarra has already begun the procedures to tender the start-up and operation of the Central Heat Txantrea, "a novel and ambitious project linked to the energy rehabilitation of this neighborhood in Pamplona, which will supply heating and hot water networks of more than 4.500 homes and several buildings, also using forest biomass as a source of renewable energy."
This project promotes the use of forest biomass as a renewable source of local origin, the introduction of energy efficiency in the rehabilitation of buildings or the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 80%. These are some of the factors that make the Central Heat Txantrea in a pioneering project in Spain.
The public company Navarra de Suelo y Vivienda (NASUVINSA) has already been awarded with the 2016 Bioenergy Prize that is awarded annually by the Spanish Association of Energy Valorization of Biomass, AVEBIOM, recognizing "the enormous work that this company has been doing for years. , promoting energy regeneration projects in neighborhoods by integrating biomass networks as a renewable energy solution ".
The heat plant will be in full performance in 2020, expanding to a second phase from 2023. In the first phase it will have a thermal production capacity of 14,5 MW and three years later it will double up to reach the 29 MW. The plant will be served mainly from the forest biomass As fuel in an 90% -the maximum in this type of facilities- and natural gas only in the remaining 10%, subsidiary and as an alternative to cover the main demand peaks. The volume of biomass It is estimated that the Txantrea thermal power plant will be required to operate between the 6.000 and 13.000 annual tons, which will allow the creation of a stable logistics chain that will guarantee a significant income to the local entities that supply the forest resources involved in the project. draft.
As for the heat distribution network, the project of the Txantrea it contemplates to unfold 4,5 kilometers of route, that can be extended according to the demand. This infrastructure will initially feed the heating and hot water networks of more than half of the 8.000 homes that make up the Txantrea, with a vocation to extend also the supply to the rest of the neighborhood and the neighboring municipality of Burlada, as well as to several welfare and service buildings located in the vicinity of the plant, such as the Psicogeriátrico San Francisco Javier Center.