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Application of the last technologies in lighting

The energetic efficiency in the public lighting of the municipalities

EREN – Regional Body of the Power of Castile and Leon

23/09/2013

Conscious of the complicated current economic moment, and of the difficulties of the municipalities to face the costs derived of the public services, on the other hand indispensable, that loan in his fields competenciales, does necessary set up measures of saving and energetic efficiency that reduce these costs, without thus suppose a merma of the quality of the services that loan .

From the Board of Castile and Leon come developing a strategy headed to promote performances of energetic efficiency in the installations of public titularity with greater consumptions, as they are the installations of lighted up external public, and installations of potabilización, supply and treatment of waters.

Lighted up urban.

In regard to the public lighting, is paramount to boost the replacement of the existent equipments of lighted up external public, of diverse typologies and in his certainly obsolete majority, by current technologies of showed energetic efficiency. This supposes a double advantage for the city councils, since apart from a lower electrical bill, involves costs of maintenance more reduced.

Like this, from the General Steering of Power and Mines in the last years have summoned lines of help for the improvement of the installations of lighting, mainly changes of luminarias and lamps, regulators of flow, astronomical clocks, etc., all they tending to improve the systems of lighted up of the local entities, and always under the premise to fulfil the valid regulation, more specifically the regulation of efficiency in lighted up external.

Of the same way, and in this case from the EREN, have realizar pilot projects of improvement of systems of lighting, obtaining important energetic savings. These innovative performances involve a high degree of replicabilidad, reducing the consumption and improving the energetic efficiency in diverse sectors and have opened the way so that now other entities can realizar his own actions.

Especially notable, and besides realizar in the province of Boroughs, is the project for the renewal of the public lighting of the 13 municipalities of less than 200 inhabitants of the Mancomunidad Bank of Duero-Region of Roa, that allowed to substitute the existent lighting by 1.200 luminarias LED.

This experience has achieved to be a concerning national level, as it will comport an important saving for the municipal budgets and revertirá besides in the welfare of his inhabitants.

Besides, his follow-up and study in every aspect is allowing so much optimise this type of performance like retorting it in other locations, serving of base so that other municipalities, implant this measure.

Is also the demonstration that the union between distinct local public entities, regional and national, together with private entities that work by the most leading technologies, is possible and gives the best results, and in this steering will follow working.