GAS NATURAL FENOSA and Saggas signed a partnership agreement today with the Provincial Consortium of Firefighters of Valencia to optimise the fire prevention, firefighting and fire rescue services at the combined-cycle power plant and regasification plant in Sagunto. The four-year agreement aims to provide a permanent and specialised service for the prevention and response to risks inherent to activity at the plants.

Under the agreement, the Provincial Consortium of Firefighters of Valencia will draw up a specific operational protocol to improve the effectiveness of firefighting personnel in response to potential fires or accidents at the two facilities. It will also collaborate with the combined-cycle power plant and Saggas on prevention and inspection tasks aimed at avoiding the outbreak of fires and minimising their consequences. In turn, the combined-cycle power plant will set up a training field and practice area for all those training activities provided for under the agreement.

Among others things, the agreement also provides for the organisation of regular visits by firefighting personnel to the two facilities, consultancy for revision of the "Self-protection Plan" and regular inspections of the fire protection equipment available at the power plant and the regasification plant. Furthermore, the Consortium undertakes to organise a joint response drill (every two years and alternating between the two companies) on a simulated incident involving both response personnel from the plants and firefighters, aimed at detecting the strengths and weaknesses of the emergency plans in place at the facilities.

GAS NATURAL FENOSA in Sagunto

The multinational power company owns the Sagunto combined-cycle power plant and holds a stake in the regasification plant located in the same municipality. The combined-cycle power plant has a capacity of 1,250 MW, accounting for 24% of the installed capacity in the region, and produced nearly 3,440 GWh in 2014.

Valencia, 17 December 2014. 

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