Achieving significant energy savings, renewing street lighting infrastructure and be more environmentally friendly.
That's what will bring the town Cotillas Towers with the new integrated management of street lighting service, the local council awarded the joint venture Ferroser-Ferrovial in regular plenary session on Thursday October 30.
"Currently our street lighting is inefficient in terms of power consumption and with this award we can achieve energy savings between 35% and 45%," said Councilman Torreño Urbanism, Pedro Cabrera, noted that in addition the contractor shall invest 933,000 euros in the upgrading and renewal of energy efficient public lighting Cotillas Towers according to the new environmental standards.
The allocation is for 20 years and during that period 6,199 luminaries be renewed, assuming the company management and maintenance of the facilities, which will extend the life of the facility by 50%, and the payment of the energy consumed during that time.
"The City Council will not pay a single euro more than what you are currently paying," said the mayor Torreño in an initiative that "perhaps the most important investment in street lighting in the municipality in recent decades and will no cost to city coffers, and that the payment of these services will be obtained through the energy savings. "
Adapt 2020
"By law, we must reduce by 2020 20% of our primary energy consumption, 20% reduction in the emission of greenhouse gases by 20% and increase the use of renewable energy," Cabrera recalled, noting that "this contract it possible to adapt to the rules of the lighting system Cotillas Towers to try to achieve maximum energy efficiency and minimum maintenance costs. "
If the measures adopted are consumed 1,589,570 KW least pollution to stop emitting CO2 487.23 tons / year to the atmosphere and can save more than 44% will be reduced.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Las Torres de Cotillas