District Heating Plant in Carona
The facility is located on the north side of the swimming pool changing rooms and is powered by a dual-fuel thermal plant using wood chips and oil. It was built by Aziende Industriali di Lugano (AIL).
Origin of the project
In 2012, the former Municipality and AIL SA signed a service agreement for the development of a district heating project using wood, aiming to create a network to supply thermal energy to buildings of users who agreed to the connection. The contract also specifies that the thermal plant would immediately become the property of AIL SA.
Project Features
The facility is located in the northern part of the Carona swimming pool locker rooms and is powered by a bivalent woodchip and oil-fired thermal power plant. The oil boiler will be used in the summer in case of emergencies and to cover peak demand and energy production when demand is too low to keep the woodchip boiler running.
The Plant
The boiler has an output of 700kW and is capable of covering 90% of the heat demand. The network extends for more than a mile and reaches 70 utilities mostly concentrated in the village core.
The English version of this page was created with the aid of automatic translation tools and may contain errors and omissions.
The original version is the page in Italian.