UPDATE 10.9.2024

After another 12 months of waiting for the distribution company and owner of the electricity grid (I-DE) to allow us to feed electricity into the grid, finally our photovoltaic installation is active! Now we are waiting for the administrative process to be completed so that we can benefit from our electricity bills. We hope it will be as soon as possible, after more than a year waiting for this moment to arrive with the installation completed.

UPDATE 6.7.2023

After 6 months of waiting due to delays in the grid access procedures completely unrelated to our association and the installation company: We are finally starting the PV installation in #Guzmán!

As you know, this is a project promoted thanks to the work of our energy community with advice from Energética COOP and the support of the Next Generation European funds managed by IDAE. To all of you who are making this projekt possible: Thank you very much!

• In the middle of the year 2020, a group of people living in Guzmán come together to think about how to improve the efficiency of the community facilities.
• In February 2021, a subsidy is obtained from the Burgos Provincial Council (SODEBUR) to install biomass heating in the municipal buildings and in the former school building, now for community use.
• During the summer of 2021, a study on energy consumption and possible production with a photovoltaic plant is presented. The study was carried out by students from the Bilbao School of Engineering of the University of the Basque Country as part of their Final Degree Project.
• The idea of ​​creating an energy community with neighbors from the town and with the town hall also began to be discussed and planned.
• At the same time, a managing group of citizens promotes and monitors different activities.
• Socio-cultural activities on energy efficiency are organized: 3 informative talks in the village on climate change, on electricity bills and on the creation of an energy community.
• In January 2022, the ‘Guzmán Renovable’ Association was formally established, with a total of 13 members and the town hall.
• A collaboration agreement is signed with the renewable energy cooperative Energética Coop so that 100% of the energy consumed by the town hall comes from renewable sources.
• In June 2022, a grant is obtained from the CE IMPLEMENTA program of the Ministry for Ecological Transition (MITECO), within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, financed with NextGenerationEU funds from the European Union, to install a community photovoltaic plant and a system that measures what is produced and what is consumed.

Financial support from the European Union:

This project has been selected in the First call of the incentive program for unique pilot projects of energy communities (CE IMPLEMENTA Program), within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.

Project data

• Investment made: €44,253
• Funds obtained: €24,352
• Scope of the work carried out: 30.3 kWp photovoltaic solar installation for collective self-consumption at homes, council and companies in the municipality of Guzmán (Burgos). Real-time data monitoring system for energy production and consumption for each supply point. Talks and individualized advice to improve the energy efficiency of homes and optimize photovoltaic self-consumption.
• Energy savings obtained: (Data yet to be calculated. Previous estimate: approx. 30% of the energy consumed by homes will be replaced by photovoltaic solar energy)
• Power of the generation facility (kW): 30.3 kWp
• Estimated annual energy produced by the facility: 42,128 kWh/a
• % of consumption of phtovoltaic energy produced: 98%

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