The project will create more than 350 jobs in Castilla y León
MADRID, 29 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Biorig, Solarig’s biomethane division, has announced an investment of 250 million euros for the development, construction and operation of 10 biomethane production facilities in the Community of Castilla y León, the company has reported.
The announcement is part of the strategic plan that the company is implementing and whose objective is to diversify its areas of activity towards the development of projects that contribute to the energy transition and decarbonization. To this end, Biorig plans to develop 20 biomethane production plants in Spain.
The set of plants will produce biomethane equivalent to the total annual gas consumption of 20% of the homes in the Castilian-Leonese Autonomous Community.
The new facilities will be located in rural areas of municipalities in the provinces of León, Zamora, Salamanca, Valladolid, Burgos and Soria, generating a positive impact on the rural and sustainable development of the area.
Likewise, this project will create more than 350 jobs and will allow the recovery of more than 1 and a half million tons of agricultural waste per year, which will prevent the emission of 300,000 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.
The facilities, whose development has already begun, are expected to be operational by the end of 2025. The development project for the first of these facilities was presented last October in San Millán de los Caballeros (León).
“Castilla y León concentrates the greatest biomethane generating potential in Spain. These facilities, in addition to being new sources of green energy production, constitute essential infrastructure for the correct management and recovery of waste in the long term in the territory,” he explained. Miguel Ángel Calleja, president of Solarig.
“15 years ago we invested and built the largest solar energy plant in Castilla y León, in the municipalities of Frechilla de Almazán and Coscurita (Soria), an infrastructure that currently continues to produce renewable energy in a stable manner. Today we announce the development of 10 plants that make up our commitment to biomethane in this Autonomous Community”, he added.
For his part, Manuel Alonso, general director of Biorig, has highlighted that the firm is currently already developing 10 facilities that will use, all of them, agricultural waste as their main energy source. “They will be 100% sustainable plants, with zero emissions, respectful of the rural environment and that will comply with the most rigorous environmental and sustainable nutrition regulations for agricultural land. Our growth plan in Castilla y León constitutes a differentiating factor for its energy and an engine of growth for strategic sectors such as agriculture and livestock,” he noted.
The 10 facilities will have state-of-the-art technology to ensure zero discharge: from the capture of biogenic CO2 to the use of rainwater, allowing zero water consumption and ensuring zero discharge.
Likewise, the byproducts or digestates (the waste left after the process by which energy is obtained), once their potential for biogas production has been extracted, will be treated to become organic fertilizers. This will reduce dependence on chemical fertilizers and contribute to more sustainable fertilization of the region’s agricultural soils.
