The Network of Cities and Towns organized a technical visit on Circular Economy and Biomass, on September 26th, in Vilafranca del Penedès.
The visit is part of the series of workshops on the Circular and Green Economy promoted by the Network with the support of the Barcelona Provincial Council and the Environmental Forum Foundation.
The circular economy […]
The municipal company of Vilafranca will take over the management of this project that, once the support of the European Life has finished, will continue to provide energy to new facilities such as Ricard Fortuny.
The Life project that was used to promote the Vineyards4Heat proposal, which that has Vilafranca City Council has been developing together […]
VINEYARDS4HEAT is a local strategy to mitigate climate change and is based on the transformation of the energy contained in the local resource of solid biomass to obtain thermal energy.
Coinciding with the EU Green Week, this Wednesday afternoon, May 23rd, the award ceremony of the Best LIFE awards took place in Brussels, which distinguished those […]
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 […]
