The director of the gas distributor, Miquel Andreu, explained the benefits of having an individual gas boiler in every home.

The director of Gas Navarra, Miquel Andreu López, met the heads of the committees of various residential blocks in Pamplona where centralised boilers are used, to tell them about the advantages of decentralising their systems and switching to natural gas as a source of energy for heating and hot water, whether they are currently using natural gas or diesel oil.

During the meeting, the Director of Gas Navarra explained how people could make their homes more comfortable while saving energy, by decentralising their systems and using individual natural gas installations.

Decentralisation offers a variety of advantages to people living in blocks of flats. Everyone can make their own individual decision on when and how how long they have their heating on; they can also decide on the temperatures they want in their homes, while cutting their community charges by around 60%. That means every resident will only have to pay for the energy consumption of their own property and never for that of an empty home.

In addition, having an individual boiler installed for home heating eliminates any possible distribution losses from the central boiler to each of the homes. As for hot water, this can be instantly obtained from an individual natural gas boiler, free of restrictions and interruptions, and with a significant reduction in energy losses (roughly 20%), as well as less waste of water.

The large engines, pumps and other pieces of equipment used in heating rooms require high electricity consumption, well above anything needed for the small electric pumps and circuits used in individual heaters, which translates to big savings on electricity.

Advantages over diesel oil

Miquel Andreu also presented the advantages of natural gas over central diesel oil heaters, highlighting the point that natural gas is a more convenient and less polluting form of energy. In addition, natural gas comes in a continuous supply and does not have to be used up before it can be refilled. So, natural gas is paid for as it is used, without the need for payments in advance every time your diesel oil storage tanks have to be refilled.

Presence in Navarre

Gas Navarra supplies natural gas to more than 187,000 users in 131 towns in the Autonomous Community of Navarre. Over 90% of Navarre's population has access to this energy. The company has a distribution grid in Navarre of more than 2,000 km of pipelines, with 133,000 supply points.

Pamplona, 12 April 2014

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