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The Mayor has collected today the National Energy Globe award granted by the Smartspaces initiative, which has also been considered by the UN as an innovative benchmark project.
The City Council is leading this plan, in which 8 countries, which aims to reduce by 20% the energy consumption of 550 public buildings, 6 of them of Murcia participate.
The Smartspaces energy saving project in municipal buildings using ICT has recently received two international awards: on one hand, has been appointed as an innovative reference project by the United Nations under the "Climate Challenge by Big Data";
on the other, the Mayor, Miguel Angel House, today received recognition of National Global Award, which has seen the winning project of the national category of the award in 177 countries who have participated and who have attended 1,500 proposals.
The Commercial Counsellor of Austria, Michael Spalek, handed the award to Mayor, Miguel Angel House Botía, at a ceremony held today at the Commercial Office of Austria in Madrid.
For the Mayor "This award is another example of the international recognition of the work of Murcia on sustainability, the environment and innovation.
Murcia will continue working to advance environmental sustainability, reducing CO2 emissions and improving energy efficiency and look forward to the opportunity to promote other projects and similar initiatives in our city. "
The Energy Global Award is considered one of the most prestigious environmental awards worldwide founded more than a decade by the Austrian Wolfgang Neumann.
The objective of Energy Globe is to increase global attention on sustainable environmental solutions that can be implemented anywhere and motivate people to mobilize in this sector.
The project submitted by the city of Murcia, Smartspaces - saving energy in European public buildings using ICT, is funded by the European Commission and supervised by the program to support the policy of information technology and communications (IPC -ict), which highlights the need to reduce 20% of energy consumption and CO2 emissions in the public sector through the use of ICT.
In Smartspaces they involved 26 partners in 11 pilot sites and in 8 countries (UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Turkey and Serbia), which collect data from smart meters on energy use per hour from 550 buildings .
Annually, this translates to 40 million bits of data from the consumption of electricity, natural gas, oil and renewable resources.
Emissions reductions and energy savings and financial
The City of Murcia, who leads this project aims to reduce by 20% the power consumption in 6 emblematic municipal buildings, which are those that consume more electricity in the city: the Town Hall, Square of Spain;
Annex to the City Hall building;
the building complex Local Police, Fire and Civil Protection Polygon Infante Don Juan Manuel.
The project, completed in 2014, has achieved its initial targets for energy saving 574MWh / year, a reduction in emissions of 270 tons of CO2 / year and a reduction in electricity bills 90,000 € / year.
The Local Agency for Energy and Climate Change has coordinated the implementation of a series of easy to use tools for public employees who make energy data into information and simple graphics to interpret and, therefore, help users reduce their consumption of energy.
All this with the support of an appropriate training and awareness campaigns managed from ALEM.
The results in the reduction of energy consumption in recent years obtained leave no doubt, surpassing in some buildings up to 20% energy savings, all through appropriate technology tools and training.
International acknowledgments
The recognition of these awards -Energy Globe Awards- aim to strengthen the awareness of society as to the need for ecological change, rewarding projects that stand out for their best practices in environmental sustainability from all over the world.
Next June 5, the winning projects in each country will be presented publicly to coincide with the commemoration of World Environment Day United Nations, and in autumn, a gala where they will announce the winners at the global level will be held winners with 10,000 euros.
Both awards represent the enhancement of the work performed in this European project since its inception in 2012, and the city of Murcia is a part.
For example, the "Climate Challenge by Big Data", promoted by the United Nations aims to find solutions to climate change, based on data, and thus highlight its economic dimension.
For its part, the Energy Globe Certificate is a hallmark recognized internationally for its work in the area of ​​sustainability.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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