Case Study (87 Kb PDF)

Summary

The Municipal Energy Agency of Malaga presents itself as the organisation responsible to promote the energy efficiency and renewal energy in the City of Málaga. For this, the Agency has set the following targets:

• Increase the energy efficiency and the use of renewal energy in municipal buildings and facilities
• Promote savings and energy efficiency in the city
• Encourage the installation of thermal solar and photovoltaic energy systems in the buildings of the city
• Increase the energy information and training of the citizens, companies, and professionals

This is the reason why AGMEM, in November 2006, organized two Technical Days in the Trade Fair and Congress Centre of Malaga.

The present technologies and their future tendency as well as the specific casuistry of the municipality were described on each technical day. So was also the correlation between corrective actions and environmental impacts. Several specialists also showed the energy situation of the City today and the Sectorial legislation was contemplated.

Results

Thanks to the technical days AGMEM obtains permanent contact with the assistants, as well as the possibility to attract the interest of new citizens. The created web page makes it possibility to find speeches and all important documentation, and is also function as a forum for new tendencies and restlessness.

To spread responsible energy guidelines is a main aim for AGMEM. AGMEM wants the society to become aware of the necessity to use conventional energy efficiently. AGMEM spreads information in the City and improves the formation of the citizens, companies and professionals in energy matters. So AGMEM has adopted different evaluation systems. First AGMEN considered the amount of people and/or attendance demanding to the events as a good indicator, being interesting to know the Sectorial distribution. AGMEM established for the first conference a demand of 150 people initially, and attended 109 finally.

By segments they were classified in the following percentage: Specialist Technicians 38%, related companies 32%, citizens associations 21%, and students 9%.

An indicator to take into account is the later web visits, which include on line information of the treated subjects (conference documentation, related legislation, updates). In this sense AGMEM considers other indicators. First, the consultations made by people who did not attend the conferences. Second, the repetitions in consultations (probably made to demand updating, due to the vertiginous changes in technology). Other indicator is the demand of information in the Web; also the demanded information given by specific groups interested in the spreading of its knowledge through the conference Web can be included.

The technical days had the following attendances:

• Sector € Public Services (Street Lighting) - 109
• Sector - Buildings - 137