Cantabria ‘Bet’ for the Solvay Biomass Cogeneneration Project

Loose Biomass -cogenousing systems offer excellent energy performance With considerable global efficiency. And CO2 emissions are neutral from the point of view of climate, because they always stay in the natural cycle and use renewable wood.

The Cantabria government has the project of Cogeneration of Solvay biomass of ‘strategic character’. This is an indispensable condition for them to gain access to payment by carbon dioxide emission -savings (CO2).

Solvay Biomass Cogeneneration

The government of Cantabria, through the Ministry of Industry, Employment, Innovation and Trade, has issued a report that has been explained by the Strategic character for Cantabria of the Biomass Cogeneneration Project From Solvay Chemistry or Torrelavega, an indispensable state to gain access to the payment of savings of carbon dioxide emissions and to guarantee the future of the Barreda factory.

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The resolution of the general directorate of planning and strategic coordination of the Ministry of Ecological Transfer and the Demographic Challenge (MIDD) of 11 December, which determines the correction coefficient, requires a certain condition in its second article «are considered a strategic project«.

For the fulfillment of this requirement, “a report from the corresponding public authority must be obtained where acknowledge that the promotion is strategically good for the competent ministry Within the General State Board or for the autonomous community, on whose territory the action is being carried out »

The counselor of the branch, Eduardo Arasti, hopes that the Ministry of Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITRD) grants the chemical company, once meets all the requirements required by the resolution, the certificates with multiplier coefficient “, as soon as possible”, , as soon as possible “, so The company can start investments.

Certificates that, as explained, are “urgently necessary”, since the belonging to Solvay for a quantity of more than 30 million euros, the chemical company forces the new installation, A 49.99 Megawatt Biomass -Cogeneneration plantBe operational in the second quarter of 2026 and for this it is “essential” to ensure the help to complete the financing before the investment is started, estimated at around 250 million euros.

«We are talking about a decision to make the report to recognize, necessary and urge the strategic nature of the Solvay Biomass Cogeneneration Project Carbon dioxide emissions with 326 million tons per year“, Has underlined the counselor, which has assured that this project” Cantabria YA Torrelavega will position as a reference in sustainability, in generating employment for quality and will contribute to the region more attractive for investments, economic activity and employment “.

He has underlined the months that both the Cantabrian director and the company have worked on a working group led by the Ministry of Industry So that this Solvay Biomass project continues And he emphasized the effort of the entire government to speed up the bureaucratic process and to provide the project for the necessary administrative procedures in Cantabria, so that the project can be implemented “as quickly as possible”.

Future Administrative Simplification Act of Cantabria

The report prepared by the Ministry for Solvay takes as a reference to the criteria of the Strategic business project figure that the Cantabria government has proposed to include in the future law From administrative simplification of Cantabria. The Solvay Biomass Cogeneneration Project has not itself been declared a strategic project because the law has not yet been approved, but it is acknowledged that the “strategic character” to receive help at the maximum speed.

For all these reasons, the strategic project statement is included in the administrative simplification account Have a preferential processing framework And benefit from speed and streamlining when processing deadlines.

It is a regulation to simplify and maximize those business projects that are simplified and maximized Significant economic and social impact are explained by the government of Cantabria as a priority or strategic, so it is “indispensable” to encourage investments in Cantabria and to develop these business projects in a reasonable time, so that their profitability and the creation of quality work is maximized. The government of Cantabria can therefore explain strategic business projects of Cantabria to those who have special economic, social or territorial relevance.