EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - Results obtained
UNIDIGES project has as main aim the development of a demonstrative plant of anaerobic digestion for manure management on farm companies of medium size including energetic valorisation (thermic and electrical) and agronomic valorisation of digestate. The project involves phases of design, building and testing of the plant consisting of the modules for anaerobic digestion and the modules for energy generation. The main aim is the obtaining of thermic energy required to rise temperature of the own anaerobic digestor and furthermore to cover thermic demands of the farm and to produce electrical energy to be connected to low power (<100 kwe). The legislative framework of reference, when the present project was planned, was the RD 661/2007 on which a project with power outputs near 100 kW with a significant thermal recovery was of great interest. By the RDL 1/2012, at the beginning of 2012, they proceed to the suspension of pre-allocation procedures and the suspension of economic incentives for new installations of electricity production from cogeneration, renewables and waste. Premiums are removed to new premises. Therefore, the initial project for selling to the low power network (lower than 100 kW) becomes no viable. During all the year 2012, while waiting for a favourable legal framework, the consortium evaluated new options for energy exploitation, auto-consumption in two possibilities, instantaneous auto-consumption and Net Balance. However, current normative do not take into account the regulation of this kind of facilities so partners of the project, once the legal situation had been evaluated, cannot assure the viability of the construction of the pilot plant due to the change in the legal situation in Spain for the special regime facilities and their negative consequences according to the solution proposed in the project. Due to the fact that up to the moment it is not possible to plan an energetic exploitation for less than 100 kw power in a profitable manner, the consortium proposed not to continue with the project because demonstrative character and replicability of the technology cannot be assure in the current situation. In this context, UNIDIGES project ends on 10
th July 2013, up to 22 months, with activities involving implementation and testing pending. However, the activities developed in the present project has given as a result a design of a technology available for implementation in a new legal framework which favours legal condition similar to those existing in the framework of reference when the present proposal was planned. (Deliverable 3.1. Report on description of digestion module and Deliverable 4.1. Report on description of biogas exploitation).
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Fair FEDIT (Málaga)
Participation in Fair FEDIT (Málaga) Staff from Lurederra attended last 25-26th October 2011 to the Technology Fair FEDIT in Málaga, annual meeting point for companies and research centres whose objective is improving competitiveness of industries through technology and applied R&D. AGENDA
10.30h: Reception of participants and delivery of documentation 10.45h: Welcome. President of FEDIT 11.00h: Seminar “Valorization of R&D Projects: How to valuate an idea’” Tom Hockaday, CEO of Isis Innovation Costing: learn how to accurately calculate your costs, including best practices on calculating overheads. Pricing: learn different ways of calculating the price of an R&D Project or a technological service. Cost based pricing vs. value-based pricing Marketing: learn different techniques on how to market R&D related products and services. Negotiation: improve your negotiation skills. Focused in R&D Projects and Technological services 13.30h: Networking lunch 17.00h: Award ceremony of Prize FEDIT of Innovation 2011 “International Year of Chemistry” 17.30h: Closure


EN21 visits farms in Sweden
Staff from Nuevos Servicios Energéticos EN21 traveled in September 2012 to Sweden to visit
farms in which systems to valorize biogas had been implemented. These visits allowed analyzing the way of generating and taking advantage of energy produced from biogas in different locations.

Participation of L'Urederra in the Informative Session of LIFE 2013 Programme
Last 23rd April 2013 L’Urederra took part in the informative session in the Library of Sciences of the University of
Navarra, in Pamplona, in which Luis Martínez de Morentin explained the experience of the Centre in the LIFE program.

Publication in the newspaper Nueva Gestión
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th November 2011 On November 4, 2011 an article related to the objectives of the Project LIFE 10
ENV/ES/442 Unidiges and partners involved in it was published in the newspaper Nueva Gestión.
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1st Follow-up meeting of the Project LIFE10 ENV/ES/442 Unidiges in the Technological Centre L’Urederra (Los Arcos)
The first Follow-up Meeting of the Project Unidiges took place in the facilities of the Technological Centre L’Urederra in in Los Arcos on 22
nd May 2012. It was attended by representatives of the Centre, of the companies Albaikide and Nuevos Servicios Energéticos EN21 and of the External Monitoring Team (Astrale). The topics treated included an assessment of the project management carried out in these first 9 months of the project and a presentation of the milestones achieved to the moment. After explaining the status of the technical works a presentation of the actions planned for the next 6 months was offered and finally all the assistants agreed to establish a 2
nd Follow-up Meeting in October 2012.
