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The City of Eagle save up to 22 percent a year on your electricity bill launching a series of energy efficiency measures in nine municipal buildings.

The mayor of Eagle, Mari Carmen Moreno, has released this information this morning during a ceremony in which they were made public the results of the European project ELENA-Fuensanta, consisting of an energy audit in which it has analyzed the consumption and energy performance of municipal buildings and has been made possible by an agreement between the municipality and the Ministry of Economic Development, Tourism and Employment.

In the case of Eagle, and after analyzing all municipal infrastructure, the audit proposes a series of measures that the City could save 63,438 euros per year, representing 22 percent of its current electricity bill, and They would stop issuing hundred tons into the atmosphere hundred tons of CO2 per year, equivalent to an area of ​​trees planted on the size of five football fields every year.

These actions would involve an investment of about 205,039 euros a year, which would be amortized in just over three years.

The most important economic savings, up to 84 percent of the total, comes from the replacement of LED lighting technology, a move that would save 53,270 euros a year.

In addition, the audit proposed bills optimize and improve the management of contracts, install photovoltaic generation systems and replacing HVAC equipment with more efficient models.

These measures relate in particular to the buildings of the town hall, the Auditorium and Congress Palace Infanta Elena, Residence San Francisco, the Placetón building and five schools and Primary Education (CEIP San Juan de Aguilas, URCI, Ramon and Cajal, El Rubial and Joaquin Shopkeeper).

The Minister of Economic Development, Tourism and Employment, Juan Hernandez, who has been commissioned to deliver the results of this study by the Mayor stressed that "the Eagles is one of 14 municipalities in the region that have already developed these energy audits, a tool that allows us to make a fixed energy performance in municipalities, key players in the fight against climate change picture, and designing energy efficiency measures to reduce consumption and emissions of greenhouse gases and promote renewable energy. "

Source: Ayuntamiento de Águilas