Barcial del Barco Multifunctional Biorefinery project raises funding at a valuation of 178 M$
Type of post: NEWS IN BRIEF.
After years of hard and intense work, the
promoters of the Barcial del Barco (Zamora, Spain) Multifunctional Biorefinery have
announced that they have managed to attract investors to finance the project.
The information contained in this post has been
summarized from a press release provided by the project promoters.
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Figure 1. Barcial del Barco Multifunctional Biorefinery
project raises funding at a valuation of 178 M$
160 M€ are required for the construction and
commissioning of the first industrial phase and EA Green Energy (current name of the project developer) has ensured an investment of 178.08
M$ with foreign investors. It has the firm commitment of institutional
investors from the USA and the support of internationally prestigious insurance
entities. Having reached this commitment, the promoter is closing the
construction agreement with one of the most important Spanish construction
companies and looking for a bank, based in Spain, to be the custodian of the
capital.
The Barcial del Barco Multifunctional Biorefinery
will produce 160,000 m3 of bioethanol and 120,000 tons of feed with a
multifunctional system. It will use beets and corn (collected within a radius
of 50 km) as feedstocks. The plant represents a green industrial model that
will transform the Region of Castile-Leon, creating 2,000 indirect jobs and one
hundred direct jobs (in a first phase). It will contribute to the
decarbonisation of the planet and will enable to obtain benefits from beets, an
endogenous and social crop that is currently in decline. From other parts of Castile-Leon
and even from other countries, interest has been expressed in building a second
and third plant. In this sense, EA Green Energy is considering La Robla (Leon) as
zone II of industrial development.
