HUELVA, Mar 5 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The thermal storage technology in solar salts developed by the Fertiberia Group, which has a plant in Huelva, has been selected by the Innovation Radar of the European Union as ‘European Radar Technology’, a recognition of excellence and innovation that reinforces the company’s sustainability strategy and enables it to continue to make a decisive contribution to the energy transition.
Its development is part of the ‘IN-Power’ project of the Horizon 2020 program, promoted by the European Commission to reduce industrial energy costs.
As reported by the company in a press release, this innovation, which allows the storage of renewable thermal energy to be used when it is needed, also guarantees an increase in thermal storage capacity of up to three times compared to standard materials, significantly reducing the kW cost of energy. With this technology, the company is committed to the use of solar salts to reduce the size of thermal storage and increase its range of availability.
As they have indicated, “more importantly, its practical application is already a reality”. Thus, within the framework of the European project H2020 Wedistrict (Smart & local reneWable Energy District heating and cooling solutions for sustainable living), thanks to which renewable energy will be produced for heating and air conditioning in Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), the Fertiberia Group will contribute these new salts for the storage of the energy produced.
The ‘Innovation Radar’ aims to detect which innovations have the greatest potential to positively influence citizens and society, becoming the main source of practical information on the advances and developments arising from research and innovation projects funded by the Commission European.
In this sense, Javier Goñi, president of the company, stressed that “this recognition from the European Union reinforces the commitment to sustainability and energy efficiency that our company has been developing, as well as our commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals and our conviction that only through innovation can we achieve the goals set in environmental matters “.
ENERGY TRANSITION
The Fertiberia Group has been a partner, since its launch in 2017, of the “In-Power” project, promoted by the European Commission with a total budget of almost six million euros, and whose objective is to develop and integrate new solutions of innovative materials in the concentrated solar thermal technology to increase efficiency while lowering the cost of energy production.
In this way, the project allows reducing the energy cost (LCOE) of the industrial sector, which is currently between 0.16 and 0.22 euros / kWh depending on the size of the plant, direct normal irradiation and the legal framework from its location, below € 0.10 / kWh.
FERTIBERIA GROUP
With more than 1,400 employees and 14 industrial activity centers spread throughout the Iberian Peninsula and France, the Fertiberia Group is a leader in the fertilizer sector in the EU, where it develops, produces and markets innovative agronomic solutions that increase the competitiveness of the sector agriculture and collaborate in the ecological transition of an essential sector for the European economy.
It is also one of the main global operators in the ammonia market, and produces environmental solutions for industry and other sectors, such as AdBlue, with which it has managed to reduce NOx emissions into the atmosphere of the diesel vehicle fleet by 10%. in Spain.
The company belongs to Triton Partners, which is driving its growth to make this Spanish company a leader in the fertilization of the future, allowing farmers to obtain superior yields with maximum environmental sustainability.
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