The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAPA), through the State Mercantile Society of Agrarian Infrastructures (Seiasa), is carrying out works to provide the Community of Irrigators Sector 3rd Section III of the Left Bank of the Najerilla, in La Rioja, with a new regulation raft and three photovoltaic solar plants, with an investment of 1,956,350.86 euros.
The objective of the action, whose implementation period is eight months, is the optimization of energy and water resources through the use of renewable energies and the improvement of water use and management.
The project to build the photovoltaic generators and regulating pond will cover the entire area of the Community, i.e. 9,017 hectares, mostly occupied by winter grain, vineyards, vegetables, sugar beet, fruit trees and olive trees.
The modernization will benefit 4,210 irrigators from the municipalities of Bañares, Baños de Rioja, Briones, Casalarreina, Castañares de Rioja, Cidamón, Gimileo, Haro, Ollauri, Rodezno, San Torcuato Tirgo, Villalobar de Rioja and Zarratón, all of them in La Rioja.
The work will consist of the installation of three photovoltaic generators that will allow to replace part of the conventional electrical energy with photovoltaic solar energy.
In addition, a regulation raft will be built at the foot of the Channel of the Left Margin of the Najerilla River that will allow to optimize the operation of the installation.
These actions are part of the program for irrigation efficiency and sustainability included in the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan and are co-financed by Next Generation funds of the European Union. The public contribution will be a maximum of 80% of the cost of eligible expenses, while the communities of irrigators and users subject to the action, will contribute the rest.
77 MILLION INVESTMENT IN LA RIOJA
The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has planned for the Autonomous Community of La Rioja an investment through the State Commercial Society of Agricultural Infrastructures (Seiasa) of 77 million euros to carry out a total of eight actions to modernize sustainable irrigation.