The Castellón Provincial Council and Facsa are launching an energy efficiency project that could allow municipalities to save up to 22% on their operating and maintenance costs.

Some municipalities in Castellón will save more than 20% of their operating and maintenance costs thanks to the protocol established by the Castellón Provincial Council and Facsa They are formalizing the process to qualify and improve the energy efficiency of pressurized water transport systems. 

This is demonstrated by the pilot test that both entities have developed in the previous stage of the project, which has also included an energy analysis of the consortia of La Plana, Pla de L'Arc and a municipality in the province selected as a pilot. 

In this preliminary stage, the use of the Energos tool - developed by Facsa and the Polytechnic University of Valencia—used so far to reduce energy costs. Specifically, with the input data (kilowatts, m3This tool allows you to rate the installation with a letter - as in the case of household appliances - and in this way it is possible to study the margins for improvement, as well as identify which parts of the installation are susceptible to improvement. 

In the case of energy analyses of facilities managed by the Provincial Council, the possibility of energy recovery through the use of PATs (pump as turbine) has been studied in up to 14 energy dissipation points with a possible energy recovery of up to 1.000.000 kWh per year, which would be equivalent to the annual consumption of 100 equivalent homes and a total emission of 138.000 kg of CO2. 

It is worth noting that the contractual framework includes, in addition to energy analyses, a training and capacity building program for provincial technicians belonging to various organizations, and that in its first edition it has been attended by technicians from the Provincial Council of Castellón, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Irrigation Syndicate of Castellón, the Irrigation Syndicate of Vila-real, Aguas Municipales de Jávea, TYPSA and Facsa.  

The objective of this training program, taught by emeritus professor Enrique Cabrera Marcet and Dr. Elena Gómez Selles, is to facilitate the correct implementation of the protocol developed within the framework of the contract and which will serve as a roadmap to analyze and improve the energy efficiency of the municipalities of the province. 

In addition to Enrique Cabrera and Elena Gómez, the following technicians from the Castellón Provincial Council participate in the development of the contract: Ignacio Sangüesa, Ana Fito, Jenifer Perez, Siro Cabedo, as well as Pascual Maximino, Miguel Ortiz and Carlos Marco from Facsa.