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Cehegín Mayor Jose Soria, and the Councillor for Environment, Maria Dolores Carrasco, presented the results of the energy audit carried out in recent months to the entire municipal public lighting in order to know precisely the state of it and how you can reduce both the electricity bill paid by the City Council and the emission of pollutant gases, resulting in a more efficient and respectful with the environment model.

"Within the Covenant of Mayors, in which we committed to a 20% reduction in energy consumption and another 20% reduction in the emission of greenhouse gases, the City Council has conducted an energy audit with the financial support Development Institute, "said Maria Dolores Carrasco.

The audit was performed in street lighting around the town, adding to the town and all villages more than 4,500 lights, approximately.

"The objective of the audit was the energy assessment of lighting and lighting facilities, among other things, improving efficiency and saving energy and reducing consumption invoice adapt the facilities to the current regulations, reduce pollution light; assess economic adaptations to the rules and provide the City a tool that allows you to manage your energy consumption and establish savings actions, "he added the mayor of the Environment.

The overall conclusions of the audit have yielded that the current consumption is 2,708,183 kW / h that could reduce up to 591 283 Kw / h, while CO2 emissions, currently estimated at 1,760,319 tons, could reduce until 384.33 Tn, provided that all the proposed measures taken in this audit.

The energy and decrease air pollutants emissions savings would be approximately 78%.

The audit recommended by an outside management company for energy services, which would be responsible for performing the adaptation of public lighting to the recommendations of the audit, replacing luminaires and telemanagement adapting the service to better control lighting and other investments worth about 2 million euro.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cehegín