The La Campana project, promoted by Vols-Partners, not only proposes a desalination company, but a strategic national infrastructure that will integrate water, energy and environmental assets into a sustainable, self-sufficient and insured return model.
With an initial capacity of 600 annual cubic hectometers, expandable up to 2,000 hm³ – already committed in negotiation – “La Campana” is designed to supply the main agricultural regions of the southeast without depending on transfers or political junctures.
Currently, project has permits and licenses in advanced processing, in coordination with the competent authorities in water, energy and environment.
An economic and sustainable impact
The implementation of “La Campana” would place Spain as an international reference in hydroenergetic technology, even with an eminently exporting role, and would generate an innovation cluster oriented to green reindustrialization.
In addition, it would create more than 15,000 direct and indirect jobs, also increasing regional GDP during the first phase up to 3.5%.
Among the assets and contracts already closed or in an advanced phase is a water contract signed worth 4,300 million euros, a global water supply projection that amounts to 30,000 million euros, an contract of carbon credits to 12 years of 3.2 billion euros (renewable up to 50 or 60 years in a total projection of 12.8 billion euros) and an energy PPA in negotiation in negotiation that would guarantee clean energy and competitive worth 60,000 million euros.
That is, the consolidated structural value would amount to one hundred billion euros distributed in water (€ 30 mm), energy (€ 60 mm) and carbon credits (€ 12.8 mm).
In addition to guaranteeing water for agricultural, livestock, forestry and hunting use, the project articulates a series of strategic objectives aligned with the SDGs: such as poverty reduction and improvement of food safety, access to drinking water, health and sanitation, the creation of decent employment, local development and gender equity and the creation of sustainable infrastructure, innovation and climate resilience.
“Water is key to setting a population, attracting industry and sustaining the rural environment. The bell is development, employment and future,” says José David Moreno Sánchez, CEO of Vols-Partners.
The global vision of “La Campana”: sustainability, climatic neutrality and operational response
“La Campana” aims at energy self -sufficiency and climatic neutrality and, for this, it is integrated into a circular economy system, which includes a combined cycle plant, a green hydrogen plant and an agrovoltaic plant.
That means, in turn, the incorporation of technologies such as artificial intelligence for real -time water management, sensors that guarantee energy efficiency and the use of block chain, or blockchain, for the traceability of carbon loans and origin guarantees.
A replicable model internationally
VOLS -PARTNERS – which already began its transformation to the corporation by reinforcing its governance structure and opening the ability to issue capital – is being audited by external signatures that guarantee its financial transparency, the contractural traceability and technical maturity and its alignment with the European requirements for large infrastructure.
The next step will be to prove that it is a replicable model and with a very interesting international projection in areas of high water stress worldwide. “La Campana” exceeds a self -sufficient capacity and model to desalibre of Ashkelon in Israel or Carlsbad in the United States.
“Just check the figures and estimates. It is expected that the billing in phase I rule out 1200 million euros a year and that can reach the long term up to 6720 million euros” comment from the company.