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wholesale market, the international exhibition
center (Fira) in Gran Vía de L'Hospitalet and
the City Metropolitana. It will be the first
district heating and cooling network to
provide centralized air conditioning for
domestic use. Over the project lifetime, the
energy plants will produce more than 2. 9
million MWh of power, 56 percent of this
amount from renewable or recycled energy
sources.
Chosen by the Barcelona City Hall, the
project will significantly reduce carbon dioxide
emissions and will emit very few suspended
particles. The Barcelona City Hall, Enagás,
the Institute for Diversification and Saving
of Energy and the Catalan Energy Institute
are all partners in the operation.
The project is based on recovering and
recycling cold energy from the Enagás
regasification plant and on energy recovery
from the thermal treatment of vegetation
residue from the parks and gardens of
Barcelona. With this proposed solution, Dalkia
will reduce primary energy consumption of
fossil fuels by 67,000 MWh per year, equivalent to the consumption of a city of 60,000
people, and cut CO2 emissions by 13,400
metric tons per year.
Initially Dalkia will build a cogeneration
plant using biomass from the parks and
gardens of Barcelona. In the La Marina
district, it will build a power plant and local
district heating and cooling system to supply
the first clients, especially in the La Marina
residential neighborhood as well as the new
pavilions for La Fira (Barcelona International
Fair), the Porta Firal buildings and the
Mercabrana wholesale market.
For phase two, Dalkia will build the
Zona Franca power plant, the district heating
and cooling system, the cold energy recovery
unit for the Enagás regasification plant
and the cold transmission network
(byproduct cold).
as about 80 MW of power. The project,
awarded by Saudi Industrial Property
Authority (MODON) is earmarked to be
completed by the end of 2011. The 8 mil-lion-sq-m (86.1 million-sq-ft) Jeddah 2nd
Industrial City is one of 18 existing industrial
cities overseen by MODON.
UAE Energy and Industrial
Investments Drop in Value
An Aug. 23 article in the “Emirates
Business 24/7” online newsletter noted
that the value of energy and industrial
investments in the United Arab Emirates
had dropped by 17 percent in the first
seven months of 2009, due to continuous
liquidity problems and investors’ low risk
appetite. The publication’s analysis of data
from ProLeads reveals that the value of
projects plummeted from $213 billion
(781.7 billion dirhams) for 245 projects in
January to $175 billion for 193 projects in
July. The 19 industrial projects, which mostly
involve district cooling, were at the time of
the article down to nine, pushing the value
to $4 billion from $5 billion.
Per the article, Frost and Sullivan cites
district cooling as the most viable cooling
solution in the Middle East. Industry analysts said the region’s district cooling market, which earned revenues of $580 million
in 2008, will reach $2 billion in 2013 at a
compound annual growth rate of 28 percent. Despite these forecasts, district cooling projects in the UAE have cooled off due
to lack of financing sources. The value of
projects dropped by 30 percent from
$5 billion to $3.5 billion, while the number
of projects halved from 19 to nine.
To read the full “Emirates Business
24/7” article, go to http://tinyurl.com/
yaoxmy6.
Tabreed Cools
Expansion Plans
The National reported Aug. 18 that
Tabreed has rescheduled more than 25 percent of its future district cooling plants as
NTCC Wins Jeddah Contract
National Trigeneration CHP Co. (NTCC)
has been awarded a major contract to provide district cooling and power generation
services to Jeddah 2nd Industrial City. The
NTCC system will provide around 100,000
tonnes of district cooling services, as well
