At the end of March, a delegation of experts from the associated companies of the LIFE project SARMIENTO, in the Murcia area of the D.O. Bullas, headed by Juan José Pajares of the wine cooperative El Rosario, together with Cristóbal Sánchez, of Microgaia Biotech and Meissa Garcia of Eurovértice Consultores visited the VINEYARDS4HEAT project. The […]
Biomass of the vineyard at Bodegues Torres
Energy consumption is an important factor in the operation of a company, as it directly affects production costs, increasing or decreasing business competitiveness. Under this premise, the motor group of energy of the Strategic Plan of the Penedès held in the Auditorium of the Bodeguess Torres de Vilafranca the […]
The digital specialized in the wine sector VADEVI has echoed of the VINEYARDS4HEAT project, explaining it to those interested in the world of wine. In short it says that for the moment in the Penedès, the vine shoots of almost 800 hectares of vineyards have been collected, which represents about 500 tonnes of pruning waste […]
VINEYARDS4HEAT has been selected by the LIFE program of the EU as one of the best projects (BEST LIFE) of those that have been closed during 2016 and 2017, and will participate in the awards ceremony to be held during the EU Green Week which will take place in Brussels during the month of May.
The […]
Mayor Pere Regull: “it is the perfect circle: we channel the burning of vine shoots in the territory, social work is for social insertion companies, we avoid carbon dioxide and transform it into energy that we subsequently save”.
Vilafranca City Council has finally given a definitive green light on January 23rd to the generation and commercialization […]
On Thursday, November 23rd, the VINEYARDS4HEAT project was presented in Gandesa, the capital of the Terra Alta wine region. The event was organized by the Consortium of Environmental Policies of the Terres de l’Ebre (COPATE), within the framework of a Forum of companies accredited by the “Terres de l’Ebre” Biosphere Reserve declared by UNESCO in […]
Taking advantage of a work day of the BIO4ECO Interreg Europe project, on Friday October 27th, a group of experts on Energy of the Public Administration of Catalonia (ICAEN, Provincial Council, Forest Technology Center of Catalonia, BosCat, …) visited Vilafranca to know first hand the “VINEYARDS4HEAT” project and to put in value the agricultural biomass […]
The VINEYARDS4HEAT website has published the final report of this LIFE project, also called LAYMAN’S REPORT, in Catalan, Spanish and English, in order to facilitate the real information of the experience to all the people and entities interested in knowing it and replicate it.
The report sets out the location of the project, its organization, explains […]
Last July 5th, in the course on A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE IN THE WORLD OF WINE organized by the University of the Basque Country in Laguardia, capital of the Rioja Alavesa, the VINEYARDS4HEAT project was presented as a reality that makes the world of wine more sustainable.
The presentation was given by the project Coordinator, Jordi Cuyàs, […]
The Plenary session of the town hall of Vilafranca approved last 28th of March the financial report exercise, through the Municipal Water Company EMAVSA, the business activity to market thermal energy, in accordance with previous agreements that modified the statutes of EMAVSA to be able to exercise this activity. The agreement is now final, once […]
