Energy

Furnace Insulation Improvement

Location: Boo, Cantabria, Spain

Time frame: From June 2023 to June 2025.

Participants: Ferroglobe Spain Metals SLU

Budget: 964.160,95 €. Grant received: 275.063,93 €.

Exp.: 2020-EFIEM-016

Ferroglobe

Main objectives: Ferroglobe has developed an energy saving and efficiency project consisting of improving the insulation of the furnace, more specifically replacing the refractory to achieve an improvement in electricity consumption by the electrodes that melt the material. Thanks to the project, 95.84 toe per year will be saved.

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High Efficiency Air Compressor

Location: Boo, Cantabria, Spain

Time frame: From December 2020 to December 2023.

Participants: Ferroglobe Spain Metals SLU

Budget: 54.705 €. Grant received: 11.830 €.

Exp.: 2020-EFIEM-013

Ferroglobe

Main objectives: Ferroglobe has developed an energy saving and efficiency, consisting of the replacement of three piston compressors with the latest technology air compressor equipment, which is much more energy efficient. The collaboration of the best equipment manufacturers in the sector has been required, which will provide us with great energy and environmental savings in the process. Thanks to the project, 16.84 toe per year will be saved.

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Automation of Refining Furnace Loading

Location: Boo, Cantabria, Spain

Time frame: From December 2020 to December 2023.

Participants: Ferroglobe Spain Metals SLU

Budget: 66.300,00€. Grant received: 17.680,00 €

Exp.: 2020-EFIEM-011

Ferroglobe

Main objectives: Project to automate the charging of refining furnace thanks to the enlargement of the raw material hopper, charging tube and reduction of the hood lifting time. Thanks to the project, better regularity has been achieved in the loading of the furnace and the loading time, during which the motors of the auxiliary systems of the furnace are consuming electrical energy, has been minimised.

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Lighting Improvement

Location: Boo, Cantabria, Spainx

Time frame: April 2024 to April 2026.

Participants: Ferroglobe Spain Metals SLU

Budget: 88.438,49 €. Grant received: 26.531,55€

Exp.: 2022/EFIEM/009

Ferroglobe

Main objectives: Replace current technology consisting of discharge lamps (mainly fluorescent and halide) with LED technology.

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Compensatory Allowances for Indirect CO2 Emissions Costs

Funded by: MINISTERIO DE INDUSTRIA Y TURISMO, DIRECCIÓN GENERAL DE ESTRATEGIA INDUSTRIAL Y DE LA PEQUEÑA Y MEDIANA EMPRESA.


 

Subsidies to Energy Intensive Consumers

Funded by: MINISTERIO DE INDUSTRIA Y TURISMO, DIRECCIÓN GENERAL DE ESTRATEGIA INDUSTRIAL Y DE LA PEQUEÑA Y MEDIANA EMPRESA.


 

Subsidies to the Intensive Gas Industry

- Participant: FERROGLOBE SPAIN METALS SA

- Year: 2023

- Grant received: 400.000 €

- Funded by: MINISTERIO DE HACIENDA AGENCIA ESTATAL DE ADMINISTRACIÓN TRIBUTARIA (STATE TAX ADMINISTRATION AGENCY)