Benidorm opts for a subsidy to have a pumping station that runs on solar energy

Benidorm City Council opts for a call for grants from the Provincial Council of Alicante with a project to convert a photovoltaic pumping station in the city. The councilman of Water Cycle, José Ramón González de Zárate, explained that the project prepared by the municipal technicians is valued at around 50,000 euros and would allow to have a pump that works with solar energy.

In this way, and as the councillor explained, "we would achieve energy savings, we would reduce CO2 emissions and other pollutants, we would improve the efficiency and performance of the pumps through the use of a frequency inverter, and we would have a fixed production price. in the face of the constant increase in the price of energy ". In addition, and according to the valued memory of the technicians, the useful life of the installation would reach "25 years with almost no maintenance".

This project focuses on the 'Coblanca' pumping station and goes through "the assembly of photovoltaic panels on the roof of one of the water tanks of the Drinking Water Treatment Station (ETAP)".

De Zárate has stressed that with this proposal "we continue to make progress in sustainability applied to the management of public services", and "working in the usual line of this term, which is to make projects and memories valued to present ourselves to the greatest possible number of subsidies. launched by the different administrations. " In this case, it is the Provincial Plan of Energy Saving of 2019 of the Provincial Council of Alicante, "an administration that is looking at our city as one of the basic pillars of the province."