Summary
The Agència Energètica de la Ribera (AER) is an autonomous organisation of the Consorci Mediambiental de la Ribera, which is formed by the county councils of the Ribera Alta and Ribera Baixa. It is a SAVE Agency that is working from July 2001. The funds of the Agency correspond to the SAVE program of the Energy and Transport DG of the European Commission and the county councils of the la Ribera Alta and Ribera Baixa. Thus, the work scope of the Agency includes to 47 villages with a population of 270.000 inhabitants of the Valencian counties Ribera Alta and Ribera Baixa. One of the main aims of the AER is to promote renewable energies in our region, reducing our petrol dependency. In this frame the AER created "La Ribera in biodiesel" a project that consists of recycling domestic waste vegetable oil into biodiesel.
Results
Before 2005 AER was only collecting wasted oil from industries and restaurants, and the results are shown in the next figures. During 2004, 418 enterprises collaborated with the AER collecting wasted oil and 260,698 l of wasted oil was collected.
The total amount of entities collaborating with this project was increased by 58% during the year 2004.
The activity has been quite successful because the number of restaurants and industries is increasing and also the volume of oil collected, avoiding it to be thrown to the sewer with the consequent environmental improvement and the energy saving.
AER is studying the domestic waste oil collection but it is really complicated because the town hall do not want to put the tanks in the streets because of accidents. So AER is looking for collaborating entities to have the oil tanks so people could go to throw their oil in.
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