Cantabria, a leader in renewable

Cantabria Community aspires to be a leader in advancing renewable energy and to become a ‘SmartRegion’ reference in intelligent networks and ICT applications for homes. This is the commitment of the leader Spaniard, Ignacio Diego, whose guidelines unveiled on Wednesday at the presentation of the axis of Energy Technology and Strategic Investment Conference I in Cantabria ‘InverCantabria’.
Diego has highlighted the potential of the Province in energy development and technology, and has sought approval for the private sector to carry out major projects in Cantabria to generate flow and quality jobs.
In this sense, he said, Cantabria not start from scratch, but with proper planning to help entrepreneurs, university “powerful reasons” in both technology subsectors and “commitment” to move towards a Smart Region.
Energy
As for clean energy, the Cantabrian president stressed the position of his Government for the wind energy and wind turbines, small wind sea and the wave (waves). This item has been worth the Energy Sustainability Plan 2011-2020 Cantabria submitted by the Administration in April, which predicts an output of 707 megawatts with less wind and hopes that 90 percent of wind energy produced in Cantabria is clean. “It is an industrial and financial challenge of first magnitude,” he said.
The Autonomous Community also raises the energy performance of the Ebro Bitrasvase and better care of slots in hydro cycles, with a large project as proposed by E. on to increase central Aguayo. It also added Diego, will study the possibility to implement a similar use in other areas of Cantabria.
It has also reported that the region will become, presumably in 2014 and hand the company also E. on, in the first community in Spain have all the electrical distribution system telegestionado. Hence the momentum that will give the concept of Smart-Grid or intelligent power distribution network.
Following in the energy sector, the Government also provides for the possibility of using Natural Gas for gas hybrid vehicles and gasoline-diesel, and small cogeneration activities in SMEs and households.
ICT
Diego Ignacio alluded to the experience of Santander ‘SmartCity’, now the regional government wants to “generalize and intensify” to convert a Region of Cantabria in knowledge. take advantage of more new technologies and generate quality of life for citizens.
Among other measures, there is the option of building a “great source of information” in the service of innovative SMEs and to develop new elements of payment through NFC technology, which will perform operations with mobile phones and contactless cards.
Diego wants to transform the region in addition to industry benchmark of unmanned aerial vehicles, whose applications range from fire safety to support fisheries.
In this regard, stressed that the government wants to focus on the airfield of La Lora as a basis of operation of these devices, they are called to integrate a high-impact industrial subsector.
Finally, he referred to other programs such as the development of augmented reality technology to provide background information on tourism, which will move beyond traditional advertising brochures, the move towards the concept of ‘connected home’.
The inauguration was held in the Auditorium of the Institute of Environmental Hydraulics, where the Cantabrian boss was accompanied, among other authorities, by the Minister of Innovation and Industry, Eduardo Arasti, the president of Endesa and current chairman of Baker & McKenzie in Spain, Manuel Pizarro, who has been asked to deliver the conference’s strategic focus, and the general manager of Technology and Operations of Banco Santander, Jose Maria Fuster, representing the sponsor.
The event has attracted the support of a broad representation of entrepreneurs and professionals.

intelligent ecological buildings

Can you imagine working in a home where you do not need to put air conditioning in summer without passing out? Do not imagine, check it out. It’s in the Circle of Raos, one of the Cantabrian company branches of renewable energy. Also in Taiwan and the United States … Are ecointeligentes warehouses. Obraes designed so that not only save energy but produce it. They have installed a small wind turbine. An invention may seem to be an expensive, impossible to realize in times of recession. Although nothing further from the reality that looms in the not too distant. Sustainable buildings are now a genuine business benefits. So real that the most guilty of the crisis his views on the reform of brand new flats in dilapidated buildings Smart. Are the real green shoots dela construction.
Volume of new buildings constructed, Spain has peaked. The challenge now is to look towards rehabilitation, but from a future perspective, consistent with the evolution of social values. And these are directed towards the sustainability of the system.
Beyond trends, there are data that lend support to this theory. It is not occasional that the European Union has cleared a line of funding for projects to transform buildings into green cities. The European Partnership for Energy Efficiency in Building goes further and offers an optimistic forecast data: in 2050 neighborhoods are real power generation plants. This will generate 0 CO2 emissions and the construction sector will have a 3% unemployment.
This may seem a utopia was exposed in the last Congress’ nearly zero energy buildings “held this week in Madrid. There, experts from different disciplines brought into focus the desirability of business is this new reality.
The opportunity and challenge at a time, to introduce clean technology investment to rehabilitate the buildings allow for ecological regeneration of cities. ” This is essential if one considers that until now, the urban centers generate 80% of CO2 emissions and at the time, the population tends to concentrate in urban areas. These are the engine of economic, social and technological development of countries therefore need a rethink to stop being a dilemma and become a solution. “In 30 years, have invested billions of euros in new sustainable infrastructure. And there’s the business, “said Tang.
On the ground, Tecnalia and collaborates with various international outreach programs that are being implemented this way to rejuvenate the aging infrastructure. The way to do it has various aspects, that range from new insulating materials for buildings that do not waste energy until the introduction of solar panels and small wind turbines to allow the building self-sufficient and, in turn, generate energy for Arius.
In the field of materials, for example, the charge of the project MATER presented during said conference new structural as soil decontamination or temperature regulation systems that employ the glass and water. Technology gives new life to the mode of making buildings and renovating them is a development path.

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Energy self-consumption, the future

The energy segment is a supplier infinite daily literature, given its importance and sensitivity that it has over the economic cycle.
The Spanish economy rooted drag a technology gap, due to the very existence of a monopoly of supply, however even drag themselves about traditions and customs of a people on a growth path. To this we must associate the endemic dependence on oil, thus closing a circle of inefficiencies and monopoly rents that prevent our development and also make us one of the worst polluters of the cosmos
Face of it, over the last decade have been modest progress in diversifying out our energy sources, and likewise in the public and business awareness of the importance of saving energy, for which established the position of energy service companies.
The aim is to provide business improvement and public electrical installations, through the acquisition of more efficient lighting, audits and cheaper energy supply through the plot of virtual operators, the form of mobile telephony.
Beside this we have developed a large renewable energy sector, mainly small wind and photovoltaic, which have shown a considerable stimulus to employment and savings in emissions, despite the recent decision to become a brake enigmatic lead in the promotion of energy diversification , to rebalance the energy mix towards electric and nuclear.
The only loophole left by the Administration for the increase of renewable energy and building wind turbines is the expectation that households become centers of energy creation and to balance their demand from within the same production and resource power companies.
The energy consumption in households is was one of the last decisions bequeathed Minister Sebastian and the Royal Decree-Law considers the consumption portion of the global demand management that does not involve financial consideration and grant rights to the producer particular excess energy that does not spend, leading to so-called net balance. Therefore, the success of this system via the generation photovoltaics and small wind, goes through a friendly legal framework that promotes the industry and overcome the difficulties.
This regulation will force a new industry, formed by the manufacturers of wind turbines and solar panels plate and minieólicas facilities, whose estimates of employment, when regulation is present and the information flow to potential users, houses, however neighboring communities in addition, reaches 500. 000 direct jobs, which should give pause to regulators.
The essential obstacle will undoubtedly municipal regulation when perceptual processing of licenses for installation on many buildings, the small wind turbines.
Apparently until now, large municipalities do not have any hard on the transmission of this type of small wind energy facilities or solar, especially in Madrid there is an exemption of up to 30% in IBI if installed photovoltaic systems in residential buildings, and data dependent consistory, no one had requested at the moment.
The essential conflict is funding, being investments with long payback periods, users need long-term funds. Although, the interest of the Administration to promote renewable energy is not matched by access to funding nor the other kind of aid. So there are some tax figures in a matter of tax deductions for installing wind turbines and solar panels for buildings, condominiums, etc.. For individuals, the ICO finances 100% of the investment with an APR of 6, 6%.
Renewable facilities are taxed at a reduced VAT rate of 8%, and improvement of electrical installation in residence. And income, income tax, the installation includes a deduction of 20% for incomes below 71. 000, outside the property tax reduction for three years of 30%.
International experiences show that the net balance works well in Italy, because for every kilowatt that the matter turns on the network, the company deducts the payment equivalent to one kilowatt. It also works reasonably in Germany and the United States, where this mechanism allows significant savings to households and notable increases in employment and wealth.
As a result, it is time to put the entire industry, consumers, producers, managers of farms and legislators and regulators to work for a savings, income generation and industry momentum renewable energy.

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Restrictive laws for small wind

Each year, 15% of the electricity that is created in Spain is lost in distribution lines. However, there is a clean energy source, which allows users to lead their own electricity at home, without wires is dealt with wasteful over tens of kilometers.

It’s small wind energy: wind turbines tiny, between 1 and 100 kW, installed on the roof of the home or on isolated farms and can help cover the total electricity demand of a residence without emitting even one gram of CO2.

The small wind is now a reality in countries like U.S., Britain and the United Netherlands, but in Spain the Ministry of Industry has stagnated growth. To install a wind turbine just over a meter, the authorities require the same requirements to drive a turbine 100 meters at the summit of a hill.

Under the current legislation, small wind energy is not even. And for manufacturers, there is a culprit: the coercive power of large corporations.

Can help meet the demands of a family without emitting CO

“Worse than the beginning”

The fifteen companies forming minieólico sector in Spain has started a war to divide his older brothers, wind farms, and achieve a proper regulatory framework, as has happened in Portugal and Italy.

The aim is that next Renewable Energy Plan 2011-2020 recognizes its existence and procedures to enable every citizen to install a impeller on its roof. But there are still 15 months for entry into force of the next Plan therefore calls on industry sector a decree put an end to now.

The Association of Renewable Energy Producers (APPA) had placed a strip of 50 MW installed in Spain in 2010, despite the bureaucratic obstacles have meant that not even get to touch the target. Today, small wind energy represents only about 8 MW.

There are only 8 MW installed, although the order for 2010 was 50 MW

And the sector will continue to choke. Ministry sources say Miguel Sebastian “no provision is legislation change” to give the sector its own entity.

And, they say, still “too early” to negotiate the Renewable Energy Plan 2011-2020, however, must be notified to the summer of 2010.

“We are worse off than at first,” laments Francisco Javier Forte, president of the APPA small wind section. “Spain has great potential in the manufacturers, who are sustained by exports and aid to the Third World, but the situation is not sustainable, we need a regulatory framework,” he adds.

The CIEMAT spend 13 million euros to bring down the miniturbines

The sector has no incentives or even raw, like his brother photovoltaic Forte judgment and the attitude of the Ministry is “unfair”. “In the U.S. comes out more affordable generate your own electricity be bought from the company, because there is no tariff deficit, so there is a small wind energy splendor,” says the manager.

In Spain, however, the State assumes the difference between what truly is worth a kilowatt and the meager fare paid by the buyer. Today, the Spanish tariff deficit exceeds 14. 000 million euros.

So Forte calls bonuses, tax incentives or grants to finance for people who choose to install a small turbine at home. Although their demands now seem unattainable.

If a citizen intends to install in your home one or more wind turbines of 1 kW, capable of bringing about a quarter of its annual electricity demand, and connect to the network to sell the excess energy, as occurs in the photovoltaic industry, will have to bureaucracy for a year, at the rate of regulatory chaos, as Forte.

“As the small wind energy originates where it is claimed, does not provide the existence of large power plants, so when a client tries to sell their kilowatts, he meets utilities’ complaint.

The director of the Wind Energy Unit of the Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology (CIEMAT), Ignacio Cruz, also believed to have power “reluctance” on small wind, because “big business is far more accessible produce all the energy in 10 central, put a counter and sell. ”

Still, says, small wind turbines imply a change in paradigm: the user begins to dispatch kilowatts. “Like it or not, utilities will have to share power generation with thousands of producers, it will have more {solution | treatment | remedy,” he remarks.

Surprisingly, despite the obstacles of Industry, CIEMAT small wind project under the Ministry of Science and Innovation, has received 13 million euros.

The team of Cruz and the National Institute of Aerospace, build new prototypes of cheaper mini-turbines, efficient and able to connect to the network with fewer problems than at present. The electrical nightmare.

When his work, all countries have a common framework to regulate mini-turbines. And in Spain, will not differ from a wind turbine 100 meters nailed to the top of a mountain.
A strangled technology

1 to 100 kW

Wind turbines have a capacity of between 1 and 100 kW and kWh originated about 1,000 each year. The largest turbine in the world, in Emden (Germany), 6 MW, generated 18 million kWh.

€ 6,000

A 1 kW turbine, capable of covering a quarter of the electricity needed for an average Spanish family, costs about 6,000 euros today.

1 year

Managing to get a license to install a small-scale wind turbine connected to the network can be extended up to a year, according to APPA ..

Rural Energy Grants

The small wind energy offers aid to rural electrification in Cantabria.

Installing a wind turbine is subsidized minieóica if isolated buildings where there is no conventional power grid.

Minieólico install a wind turbine in a region isolated from Cantabria that has support from the regional administration.

The Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Rural Development has convened this community electrification grants for environmental isolated rural buildings through the use of clean energy. Here, of course, include small wind turbines.

Cantabria subsidizes the installation of small wind turbines in construccionesaislados of rural areas. Rural and mountainous areas have many construccionesapartadas Cantabria, for which a suitable arrangement is the application of wind energy as a power source.

The Government of Cantabria help up to 7. 000 in case of buildings and private possession to 10. 000 in the case of buildings of local authorities.