La Orotava is committed to a 100 per cent clean energy consumption and is continuing to take measures to help the environment. The concessionaire company, Effico, will invest more than 1.2 million euros in the improvement and sanitation of public lighting. One of the requirements given the highest priority when awarding the maintenance service for public lighting again was its contribution to a sustainable municipality, said services councillor, Felipe David Benítez. Therefore, in this new contract, for four years and with the possibility of extending two more, it is planned to invest more than 1,255,000 euros in the improvement of the public lighting network, which is added to the annual maintenance amounting to 1,246,443 euros. “For years, work has been done on the modernisation process to reduce consumption and expense of the bill and among other things there has been a progressive renovation of mercury and sodium vapor lamps to avoid light pollution,” the council has explained. “More than 2,000 new lights of latest technology LED in different municipal depen-dencies, schools, streets and squares of the municipality have been installed.” The new equipment is managed by remote control from a computer terminal and this also allows controlling operations such as the reduction in the level of lighting in those sections and times in which it is feasible. Other actions within the contract are the renovation of the lampposts of the Plaza del Ayuntamiento. Likewise, the maintenance of photovoltaic and wind turbine insta-llations, sealing of manholes to avoid the theft of cables, maintenance of all traffic lights and generator sets and so on. In the last three years of management of public lighting, also through Effico, more than 2,000 breakdowns have been resolved, 2,300 repairs were carried out, 2,218 maintenance and cleaning actions and 900 new electronic equipment of the latest technology was installed to improve energy efficiency. All this has meant an annual saving of 318,726 Kwh, equi-valent to about 200 homes. In the new contract, the objective is to overcome these figures, reducing consumption, with greater energy efficiency, thus improving the lighting of La Orotava. The council is also aiming to reduce light pollution to comply with the Canary Sky Protection Law. Likewise, local residents are being urged to think about their power consumption and caring for the environment.
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