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Announcement of helps for the replacement of optics of semaphores to technology LED

24/10/2011

24 October 2011

In the B.Or.And. Of 20 September 2011 they have published the regulatory bases of the second Program of helps for the replacement of optics of semaphores to the new technology LED, with ends of energetic saving, headed to city councils, as it established the past 28 June in Resolution of the Board of directors of the IDAE.

This second announcement supposes the continuity of the approved on 23 July 2007 (and published in B.Or.And. Of 28/09/2007), justified by the big potential of energetic saving that could contribute this measure, as the technology LED applied to the most common model of semaphore allows to obtain 80% of reduction of the consumption, to the margin of the security that this technology contributes to the traffic so much by the greater reliability and durability, as by the best iluminancia perceived by the human eye.

City council of Cartagena.

The Program consisted in that the IDAE supplied the optics requested by each city council, having to this effect the setting of the same to his charge. The result of the announcement was the replacement of a total of 462.300 optics of semaphores by LED in a group of 600 city councils, whose implantation has allowed to reduce the consumption of electricity in 85.760 MWh annual, and reduce the demand of power to the electrical system in 26.600 kW.

Since they still would remain for substituting in Spain near of 100.000 semaphores to the technology LED, the potential of saving of energy would be in the order of 80 GWh/year of electricity. Thus, the IDAE, by entrust of the Council of Ministers of 4 March 2011, and in the context of the Plan of Intensification of the Saving and the Energetic Efficiency, has set up a new program of replacement of optics of semaphores to technology LED, articulating a similar mechanism to the implanted in his day for his execution, and with the aim to culminate the implantation of this technology in the Spanish municipalities.