Case Study (84 Kb PDF)
Summary
The Energy Agency of Massa Carrara has made a study relating to public lighting in the Municipality of Podenzana. By using efficient technique the energy consumption for lightning can be decreased with more than 52 %. Besides energy reduction the project also will lead to decrease of greenhouse gases emissions in the atmosphere, the decrease of the use of natural resources, and the decrease in the energy dependence. The present project will be used to improve the conditions in ten other Municipalities in the province, which have the same characteristic of Podenzana. Preliminary studies have been already done in six of them with results similar to the ones set out in this case study.
Results
Following results were achieved during the project:
Lessons learned and repeatability
The Province of Massa Carrara has 17 Municipalities, 11 of them have the same lighting typology of Podenzana, while 6 of them have too long electric lines to use the power regulators. For them the Energy Agency of Massa Carrara is studying a different system which reduces the energy consumptions using a flux regulator instead of the Dibawatt® mentioned before, even if the replacement of the old bulbs with higher efficiency bulbs still holds (for example HPS).
The present project will be used to improve the conditions of the other 10 Municipalities, which have the same characteristic of Podenzana. Preliminary studies have been already done in 6 of them with results similar to the ones set out in this case study.
This project is an excellent example of how simple actions by a community using existing techniques can make a difference and play an important role fighting our common environmental problems.
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