The Canary Islands Health Service (SCS) will develop a geothermal energy project at the Doctor José Molina Orosa University Hospital of Lanzarote, the first pilot project for the use of this type of energy in the centers of the public health system. This was reported by the Ministry of Health in a press release issued this Monday.
This project has a budget of 929,974 euros to be executed in the next 18 months. The project, which is 70% financed by the Next Generation Funds, is part of the Zero Net Emissions Health Strategy 2030 of the Canary Islands Health Service.
The objective of this project is to take advantage of geothermal energy, with a power of 500 kW, for the production of air conditioning, heating and sanitary hot water at the Doctor José Molina Orosa Hospital in Lanzarote.
The project, a pioneer in Spain, will reform the thermal installations using geothermal energy, through the use of a green resource that takes advantage of one of the main singularities of the island of Lanzarote. This initiative is expected to save more than 2,700,000 kWh of energy consumed annually and approximately 729,000 euros with the current rate.
This project is part of the SCS's 'Zero Net Emissions Health Strategy 2030', which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the Canary Islands' health services by 2030 and, thus, contribute to the prevention of the effects of climate change.
The SCS project was selected as a beneficiary of aid called by the Ministry of Ecological Transition, Fight against Climate Change and Territorial Planning of the Government of the Canary Islands within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, for the execution of incentive programs for the implementation of thermal renewable energy installations in different sectors of the economy.