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Cerialdo district heating plant

New and intelligent urban planning 

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Cerialdo district heating plant

New and intelligent urban planning 

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Cerialdo district heating plant

New and intelligent urban planning 

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Constantly at the service of the environment, citizens and public administrations

Every day, Edison Next works alongside public administrations and other local organizations to carefully plan the evolution of urban areas, considering citizens’ comfort a key element. Thanks to the biomass district heating plant in Cerialdo, we were able to replace a high number of residential boilers with a single plant, which has significantly contained emissions in the area.

Cerialdo
4
Wood-fired boilers
1
Backup gas boiler
7 gigawatt hours
Gigawatt hours of thermal energy produced per year

The requirement

Edison’s wood biomass power plant at Cerialdo serves the new district heating network and has four wood-fired boilers providing a total of 2,998 kW and one backup gas boiler. Delivering 8 gigawatt hours of thermal energy a year, the plant is able to cover the thermal requirement of over 350 families and a number of service companies in the area, thereby avoiding 2,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions a year. 

Benefits
Positive impact at local level
Sustainability
The local community needs to procure domestic heat and hot water efficiently, keen on economic and environmental sustainability.

The solution

Edison Next built an efficient district heating network, fed by a wood biomass plant, for Cerialdo (Cuneo). The plant and network are part of the sustainability strategy because they enabled the shutdown of various inefficient old plants and the supply of domestic heating and hot water to as many households and service sector users as possible. This short biomass supply chain also helped widen the choice of energy sources in the area.

Results

The building of this plant is an important milestone combining the search for advanced environmental solutions meeting the area’s energy needs with the capacity to work with local forestry/wood businesses. This led to a reduction of environmental impacts and the creation of jobs thanks to the decision to promote local resources and sustainability. 


-2,000 t/year
of CO2 released into the atmosphere
around
1,000,000 m3
of gas replaced by renewable sources