Will install solar panels on 36 municipal building roofs
Las Rozas will install photovoltaic panels on 36 municipal buildings, specifically on the roofs of sports centers, schools, cultural and social buildings, and other city infrastructures, to generate clean energy for self-consumption. “In Las Rozas we have been committed to clean energy for some time and this project is part of our plan to turn the city into an emission-neutral municipality by 2030. Energy is becoming more expensive every day and thanks to the use of all our roofs we will be able to considerably reduce the municipal bill and use these resources to improve the quality of life of our neighbors,” said José de la Uz, mayor and president of Las Rozas Innova, the entity in charge of this energy management.
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The roofs of the 36 buildings total 16,191 square meters, of which more than 7,600 square meters can be used for their exploitation, in which panels will be progressively implemented, with a total power of 1.6 megawatts, equivalent to the power contracted by nearly 700 homes. A global project that will reduce the bill by 30%, which will save the emission of almost 40,000 tons of CO2 in 30 years, a figure that corresponds to the CO2 absorbed by 110,000 pine trees.
The exploitation of the municipal roofs to generate clean energy has an investment of close to 4 million euros, which will be used for the gradual installation of the panels, as well as an advanced energy management system. The aim is to reduce the energy consumption and dependence of public buildings in which the City Council has already carried out in recent years various actions such as changing boilers, replacing lighting with LED technology, improving the insulation of the building envelopes, as well as the implementation of a centralized management system for air conditioning systems.
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The operation of the roofs of these municipal buildings and their integration into the Smart City Platform is a further step by Las Rozas Innova in its strategy to become the Municipal Energy Manager, a role that will allow the Municipal Innovation Company to fulfill one of the main foundations of its Strategic Plan: to promote sustainable, innovative and efficient actions in the city through projects in the areas of energy, environmental and climate policy. Through this data management platform, Las Rozas Innova will be able to collect information on the use and consumption of public facilities, monitor and optimize supplies and detect anomalies. The information obtained will also be the basis for Las Rozas Innova to carry out energy audits of all municipal facilities and establish proposals and strategies for energy savings.
Las Rozas Zero 2030
The concession of the municipal roofs and their integration into an energy management platform is part of the Las Rozas Energy Efficiency Management Plan, integrated into the Las Rozas Zero 2030 strategy in which different areas of the City Council and Empresa Municipal de la Innovación are working to achieve a balance of emissions in the city by 2030.
This is a challenge for the city, which seeks to make it a benchmark for environmental sustainability and covers areas such as energy saving, sustainable mobility, improvement of equipment and production of energy resources, among others.
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To obtain an improvement in self-consumption photovoltaic installations, Las Rozas Innova (Municipal Innovation Company created in 2020 to promote the development of the city as an international benchmark in technology and innovation) conducted last May a Preliminary Market Consultation (PMC) for three areas, one of them energy, through which it has already received several proposals from companies, startups and research centers that will increase the energy use of rooftops.
In addition, it has launched a challenge to companies and startups that develop blockchain technology to introduce processes that bring security to the project of exploitation of municipal roofs.
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