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Cartagena City Council has agreed with FCC that will bring to city coffers savings of 3,962,000 euros and a reduced burden on the budget over two million euros between now and 2014, as reported this morning Mayor, Pilar Barreiro during the visit to the landfill biogas plant in El Mina Regent Gorguel.
That savings is the result of a negotiation on the contracts for cleaning and rubbish collection, cleaning of schools and maintenance of parks and gardens.
The agreement includes waiver of 1,172,000 in interest and payment arrears and more than 1,310,000 euros from the reorganization of services to reduce costs.
In addition, the company has accepted the CPI as the only formula for revision of prices, making it easier to municipal control.
Also, for the first three years shall apply only 85% of CPI.
The mayor has said that these agreements are very favorable for the city at a time which is essential to improve the way they manage to make them less expensive services to citizens.
The negotiations, developed by Council of Finance, Fatima Suances, and Infrastructure, Francisco Espejo, have arisen after the ten-year extension contract with Lhicarsa.
This expansion will also cut more than two million annual budget weight of municipal bonds by fractionation of debt and amortization of investments.
The council has in recent months renegotiated all contracts for savings. Previously reached agreements with the urban transport company (Urban Transport Cartagena, SA), to reduced the municipal contribution by 500 thousand euros, and have also been agreed reductions in towing contracts, reduced by 14%, the insect and rodent control, which declined 10% and 20% drop in the contribution to the service of domestic animals (CATAD) as the contractor assumes full management costs.
BECOME METHANE POWER
The Mayor, Pilar Barreiro, accompanied by the Councillor for Infrastructure and Services, Francisco Espejo, the Lhicarsa manager Jose Alcolea, and CEO of Energy Southern Europe, Christopher Eden, this morning visited the biogas plant Gorguel in that is a daily megawatt of electricity from methane gas as fuel underground, from the decomposition of municipal waste from landfill Mina Regent.
As explained by the mayor, is a project launched to promote efficiency and energy savings.
The sponsor is the City Council, through Lhicarsa company, which has granted the company Biogas Seville Cartagena SL, consisting of Energy in Southern Europe, the concession to produce electricity in the municipal landfill in El Mina Regent Gorguel.
It is a biogas generating facility using methane gas formed in the subsoil of the landfill as a result of decomposition of the wastes.
The plant generates one megawatt a day, 365 days a year, with this production of energy supply can cover 1,000 households and illuminate several public squares.
Also from the environmental point of view, allowed to emit 40,000 tons of CO2.
The City will not only save cost 200,000 euros to the degassing of the landfill to which the Act requires us, and also enter through Lhicarsa about 120,000 per year for participating in the sale of electricity.
The company estimates that the reserves of methane from the weirs could last about 20 years and is considering the installation of a new half megawatt generator from December and the use of methane from old landfill Gorguel.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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