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The mayor of San Javier, Visitation Martinez, and the councilman of Commerce and Industry, José Guillermo García, today presented the Municipal Energy Saving Plan that includes a wide set of measures to reduce and optimize power consumption in street lighting and municipal
The City of San Javier has launched an energy saving plan that includes short-, medium and long term that will allow an electric bill savings of 40 percent per cent over the next four years, representing a reduction of 2.2 million euros.
The mayor, Visitation Martínez, stressed that the aim of this plan is twofold, as it seeks to delve into the principles of efficiency and savings in utility costs, and develop an energy policy more sustainable and environmentally responsible.
Under these assumptions of efficiency and sustainability, the Department of Industry has developed the Energy Saving Plan that includes a major package of measures to reduce and optimize energy consumption for lighting both public and municipal buildings, without interfering with the quality of services.
For his part, Councillor for Industry, José Guillermo García, explained that negotiations are beginning to change the rate of last resort to the free market, which will direct savings in turnover of 20 percent.
Addition, he noted, have already taken steps to reduce consumption in street lighting, and knock out 50 percent of the lamps in the partial plans uninhabited and activation of a flow reducer in the whole municipality, representing an energy savings of 40 percent.
It also optimizes the lighting of sports facilities, reducing the lighting for training and other activities that do not need the full power.
With regard to measures taken in the short to medium term, the mayor has indicated to install power factor capacitors are replaced mercury vapor lamps (10 percent of municipal lighting) by sodium vapor lamps, which consume 20 percent less, and astronomical time switches installed on the lampposts to be adjusted, accurately, on and off to the hours of sunlight.
Also be changed by T8 fluorescent tubes T5 tubes, which consume 20 percent less, it installed motion detectors in bathrooms, hallways, staircases and small units for light automatically turns on only when they are inhabited, and replaced Halogen bulbs LED interior lamps.
The councilman added that the plan includes long-term, digital electronic ballasts installed in the luminaires, which will mean energy savings of 8 percent and raises the implementation of LED technology in lighting when the whole is more developed and adapted to market prices.
In this regard, the first mayor has clarified that this plan does not include large investments, but rather to initiate a long-term process of modernization of power systems, adapting them as necessary to new clean and efficient technologies.
Thus, this plan is part of the commitment to austerity, transparency and control that this government has contracted with pinatarenses to face and solve the difficult economic situation of the City Council has concluded.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Pedro del Pinatar
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