World First: Veolia, Enagás and Barcelona City Council Inaugurate the First Urban Cold Recovery Network From an LNG Terminal
November 25 2024 - 8:53AM
Business Wire
- Estelle Brachlianoff, CEO of Veolia, Arturo Gonzalo, CEO of
Enagás, and Laia Bonet, Deputy Mayor of Barcelona, today
inaugurated the first world urban network to use residual cold from
a regasification process as a sustainable energy source for
industrial and residential purposes, located at the Enagás LNG
terminal in the Port of Barcelona.
- A world first, this pioneering innovation and energy
efficiency project promotes decarbonization and is an effective
example of collaboration between the public and private
sectors.
- 131 GWh per year of local, decarbonizing, affordable energy
produced, equivalent to the annual consumption of a city like
Reus (Tarragona) with over 100,000 inhabitants.
- 32,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions avoided every year,
equivalent to 110 round-trip long-haul flights between Barcelona
and New York.
- Veolia has signed a memorandum of understanding with
Mercabarna, Barcelona's main food wholesale market and one of
the largest in Europe, to supply sustainable cooling for eight
fruit, vegetable and seafood pavilions (cold storage rooms for
fresh and frozen food products) and other companies with
complementary activities.
- Veolia and Enagás have signed an agreement to develop
business opportunities and to copy and adapt the cold recovery
solution for LNG terminals, both in Spain and internationally.
Regulatory News:
On Monday, November 25, 2024, Veolia (Paris:VIE), world leader
in ecological transformation, Enagás, international energy operator
and Technical Manager of the Gas and Hydrogen System in Spain, and
Barcelona City Council (BSM and Tersa) inaugurated a
ground-breaking residual cold recovery solution installed at the
Enagás LNG terminal in the Port of Barcelona, Europe's 10th largest
port. This technological innovation is now operational, generating
131 GWh of sustainable, low-carbon, local and affordable energy
per year.
This innovation will avoid more than 32,000 tonnes of CO2
emissions every year, confirming the commitment of Veolia,
Enagás and Barcelona City Council to reducing greenhouse gas
emissions and transforming the city in an environmentally friendly
way.
In the traditional regasification process, liquefied natural gas
(LNG) gets the terminal by ship in a liquid state at -160°C, and
uses seawater to heat and transform the LNG into natural gas at
ambient temperature. Thanks to this new regasification and
transport solution based on innovation by Enagás and Veolia
respectively, this residual cold is brought down at a temperature
of -20ºC, where it can be recovered and recycled to supply the
South Barcelona and part of L'Hospitalet area with low-carbon
energy.
This recovered energy is re-injected into the largest
district cooling network in Southern Europe and directly
benefits several major infrastructures located in that area,
including the Fira de Barcelona, Generalitat de Catalunya
offices, industrial and tertiary sites and public
infrastructures.
Moreover, Veolia signed a memorandum of understanding with
Mercabarna, Barcelona's main food wholesale market and one of
the largest in Europe with over 600 companies specialising in the
distribution, preparation, importing and exporting of fresh and
frozen products. It’s a key player, serving not only Catalonia but
also parts of Spain and Southern Europe. Mercabarna could benefit
from the residual cold recovered from the Enagás LNG terminal for
eight fruit, vegetable and seafood pavilions and
several food sector Companies
In addition to that, Veolia and Enagás have signed an
agreement in order to develop business opportunities and copy
and adapt the cold recovery solution in LNG Terminals, both in
Spain and internationally.
With over 150 regasification terminals worldwide, this unique
solution opens up considerable prospects for the production of low
carbon local energy from hither to untapped fields. By combining
technical expertise and environmental commitment, this project
demonstrates the feasibility and relevance of local supply
solutions to meet the global challenges of energy sovereignty and
decarbonization.
The success of this project is based on the close collaboration
initiated in 2009 between Veolia, Enagás, Barcelona City Council
and all the local players present at South Barcelona and
L’Hospitalet. Thanks to this synergy, the local energy produced
from residual cold will boost the competitiveness of local
infrastructures, while accompanying the urban and sustainable
transformation of Barcelona's port area.
“In the fight against global warming and the quest for energy
sovereignty, we must do everything in our power to avoid energy
losses and waste. As part of our GreenUp strategic program, the
recovery of waste heat and cold is a major component of Veolia's
strategy for the ecological transformation of its energy mix. The
replicability of this solution is a world first, opening up huge
potential in Europe and internationally. It demonstrates the
positive impact of territorial energy solutions on the
decarbonization and competitiveness of territories. I am also
delighted to announce today our new partnership with Mercabarna,
which will benefit directly from the local energy produced by this
technology,” said Estelle Brachlianoff, Veolia's Chief Executive
Officer.
In the words of Arturo Gonzalo, CEO of Enagás, “today we
have taken a very important step forward in our commitment to
innovation and sustainability in our industrial processes. This is
an emblematic sustainable energy project for the city of Barcelona,
with generation technology developed by Enagás, which will provide
access to sustainable and competitive cold for industries and
consumers in the area of influence of the Enagás regasification
plant and the Port of Barcelona. Today we have also signed a very
important collaboration agreement with Veolia to promote a joint
commitment to develop sustainable value chains that will move
towards a carbon neutral economy in Spain and Europe.”
“We are putting innovation at the service of more sustainable
and resilient cities. This project is pioneering, it places
innovation, energy efficiency, decarbonisation and public-private
collaboration at the centre, and this allows cities to face the
challenges of climate change, challenges that we must transform
into the generation of new opportunities,” said Laia Bonet,
first deputy mayor of Barcelona City Council.
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ABOUT VEOLIA
Veolia's ambition is to become the benchmark company for
ecological transformation. With nearly 218,000 employees on five
continents, the Group designs and deploys useful, practical
solutions for managing water, waste and energy that help to
radically change the world. Through its three complementary
activities, Veolia contributes to developing access to resources,
preserving available resources and renewing them. In 2023, the
Veolia group served 113 million people with drinking water and 103
million with wastewater services, produced 42 terawatt-hours of
energy and recovered 63 million metric tons of waste. Veolia
Environnement (Paris Euronext: VIE) generated consolidated sales of
€45.3 billion in 2023. www.veolia.com
ABOUT ENAGÁS
Enagás is a Transmission System Operator (TSO) with 50 years of
experience in the development, operation, and maintenance of energy
infrastructure. The company manages approximately 12,000 kilometers
of gas pipelines, three underground storage facilities, and eight
regasification terminals. It operates in seven countries. In Spain,
Enagás serves as the Technical Manager of the Gas System and has
been appointed as the Interim Manager of the Hydrogen Transmission
Network (HTNO) under Royal Decree-Law 8/2023. By agreement with the
Council of Ministers, Enagás has been entrusted with the
development of H2Med, Spain’s hydrogen network and associated
storage infrastructure. Aligned with its commitment to the energy
transition, Enagás has announced its target of achieving carbon
neutrality by 2040, reaffirming its strong dedication to
decarbonization and the promotion of renewable gases, especially
hydrogen. www.enagas.es
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