Municipality of Balmaseda

Spain
Summary
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    Population 7655
  • km 2
    Area 22.8
  • EUR
    GDP 140 Million
  • emission
    Targets by N/A N/A
Targets

Targets by Municipality of Balmaseda

Renewable energy target

 

  • The Municipality of Balmaseda committed to increase its share of renewable energy in final energy mix in Community by 29% by 2020
  • The target is going to be reached by activities in Electricity, Heating & cooling and Transport sector.
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  • The Municipality of Balmaseda committed to increase its share of renewable energy in final energy mix in Local Government by 29% by 2020
  • The target is going to be reached by activities in Electricity, Heating & cooling and Transport sector.
Energy efficiency target

 

0% Energy efficiency improvement by 2020

  • The Municipality of Balmaseda committed to increase its energy efficiency in Final energy and Community energy consumption by 0% by 2020 compared to 2007 levels.
  • This target will be achieved in Electricity, Heating & cooling and Transport sectors

 

0% Energy efficiency improvement by 2020

  • The Municipality of Balmaseda committed to increase its energy efficiency in Final energy and Local Government energy consumption by 0% by 2020 compared to 2007 levels.
  • This target will be achieved in Electricity, Heating & cooling and Transport sectors
Adaptation and resilience target

 

The local government is committed to reducing its emissions 29% by 2020.

Actions
Recovering the obsolete urban sectors and improving the non-refurbished public spaces, with a special emphasis on San Ignacio and Tenerías, improving their links to the urban centre. - Municipality of Balmaseda
  • Start year:
  • Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
  • Status: In operation

Stimulating the refurbishment of buildings and façades, the enhancement of closed commercial premises, by cleaning them or erecting embellishment panels. Implementing the measures envisaged in the Tenerías PERI (Special Integral Refurbishment Plan). Improving access to the San Ignacio district.

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Sectors:
  • Residential
local action
3.2.3 Implementing energy efficiency measures for municipal street lighting. - Municipality of Balmaseda
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  • Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
  • Status: In operation

Along with the municipal facilities, street lighting is the other great consumer of municipal energy. The street lighting energy audit conducted in 2009 already envisaged a series of actions to be taken in order to improve its efficiency. In this regard, the aim is to continue implementing the envisaged measures, conduct new audits as necessary, deploy the most efficient technology in each case, implement remote management and monitoring system, optimising the switching on/off times, improve the adjustment, etc., and thus progressively eliminating the more efficient lamps.

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Sectors:
  • Other Emissions
local action
Get programmes up and running to help local retailers to implement energy efficiency measures - Municipality of Balmaseda
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  • Type: Fiscal / Financial mechanism
  • Status: In operation

Offer retailers specialised technical support. Setting up a specific line of funding, in order to allow the implementation of energy efficiency measures

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Sectors:
  • Commercial
local action
Improve the thermal cladding and enclosures of the municipal buildings. - Municipality of Balmaseda
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  • Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
  • Status: In operation

A key aspect when improving the energy performance of municipal buildings is to improve their thermal cladding and enclosures, in order to limit energy losses as far as possible. In this regard, each building will need to be audited in order to establish the specific measures to be adopted: changing windows, fitting double doors, improving the insulation, etc.

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Sectors:
  • Other Emissions
local action
Implement urban waste prevention actions - Municipality of Balmaseda
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  • Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
  • Status: In operation

As established in the Contaminated Land and Waste Act 22/2011, of 28 July, waste prevention programmes will be prepared and will establish targets for waste prevention, for cutting the amount of waste generated and for cutting the amount of pollutant or hazardous substances. The programmes will describe the existing prevention measures and will assess the utility of the measure examples that are indicated in Annex IV or other appropriate measures. These measures will be aimed at cutting the amount of waste produced in 2020 by 10% compared to 2010. The purpose of those targets and measures will be to break the link between economic growth and the impacts on human health and the environment associated to waste generation.

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Sectors:
  • Waste
local action
Introducing energy efficiency measures in municipal building's heating and climate control installations - Municipality of Balmaseda
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  • Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
  • Status: In operation

Heating and climate control installations are heavy energy consumers and therefore optimising their running is essential. Energy efficiency criteria will need to be taken into account from the design and sizing stages for new installations or change of use of municipal amenities. Depending on the type of buildings and based on energy audits, changing boilers, alternative systems such as biomass, geo-thermal, cogeneration, installing thermostatic valves, etc., will be considered.

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Sectors:
  • Commercial
local action
Foster the refurbishment and construction of housing units with energy efficiency criteria - Municipality of Balmaseda
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  • Type: Education/Awareness Raising
  • Status: In operation

There will be an emphasis on energy certification of the new buildings, in order to achieve the greatest degree of energy efficiency.

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Sectors:
  • Residential
local action
Recovering the obsolete urban sectors and improving the non-refurbished public spaces, with a special emphasis on San Ignacio and Tenerías, improving their links to the urban centre. - Municipality of Balmaseda
  • Start year:
  • Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
  • Status: In operation

Stimulating the refurbishment of buildings and façades, the enhancement of closed commercial premises, by cleaning them or erecting embellishment panels. Implementing the measures envisaged in the Tenerías PERI (Special Integral Refurbishment Plan). Improving access to the San Ignacio district.

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Sectors:
  • Urban risks associated with housing
local action
Enhancing the landscape quality, particularly along the banks of the River Kadagua as it flows through the river. - Municipality of Balmaseda
  • Start year:
  • Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
  • Status: In operation

Including the recommendations from the "Encartaciones Landscape Catalogue) and the future Basque Country Landscape Act.

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Sectors:
  • Terrestrial ecosystems and ecological infrastructure
local action
Coordinating strategies with competent supramunicipal entities to enhance the riverbank vegetation - Municipality of Balmaseda
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  • Type: Organizational / Governance
  • Status: In operation

Bizkaia Provincial Council and the Basque Government, URA-Basque Water Board, Confederación Hidrográfica del Norte water authority, have jurisdiction, depending on the different actions that are going to be implemented in the water public domain areas. The actions envisaged to enhance the riverbank vegetation therefore have to be coordinated with each of the different institutions, and taking into account their impact on key aspects such as endangered fauna (European mink, amphibians, etc.), flood potential, etc.

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Sectors:
  • Terrestrial ecosystems and ecological infrastructure
local action
Implementing measures to reduce or minimise the potential climate change impacts identified as being on the greatest scale. - Municipality of Balmaseda
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  • Type: Policy/Strategies/Action Plans
  • Status: In operation

Once the greatest risks associated to climate change have been defined, a plan of action will have to be established and prioritised to reduce the associated risks: flood potential, heat waves and cold snaps, etc.

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Sectors:
  • Mobility
  • Terrestrial ecosystems and ecological infrastructure
  • Land use regulations
  • Coastal zone systems
  • Human security and emergency response
  • Insurance and investment
  • Mobility
  • Urban risks associated with housing
local action
Inventories
Community inventories

The Municipality of Balmaseda has reported 1 Community emission inventory, since 2013. In its latest inventory, compiled in 2013, the Stationary energy, Transport, Industrial process and product use, Waste management, Agriculture, forest and other land use and Agriculture, forest and other land use are identified as key emission sources.

GHG emission from Municipality of Balmaseda
GHG inventory in 2013
Government operations inventory

The Municipality of Balmaseda has reported 1 government operational inventory, since 2013. In its latest inventory, compiled in 2013, the Transport is identified as key emission source.

GHG emission from Municipality of Balmaseda
GHG inventory in 2013
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Initiative

Compact of Mayors - ICLEI

Status of compliance

Compact of Mayors
full compliance
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