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Cartagena City Council has proposed to conduct an energy conservation campaign, beginning with a study of power consumption of the departments and municipal services and see the points that could save money on electricity bills.

This initiative was raised during the meeting that the Mayor, Pilar Barreiro, held this morning with the Iberdrola group's institutional representative in the region of Murcia, Patricio Valverde, and the head of distribution thereof, César Calomarde, together to the aldermen of Services, Enrique Pérez Abellán, Urbanism, and Infrastructure Segado Joaquín, José Vicente Albaladejo, to address issues related to the activity of this company in the town and coordinate action, taking the execution of certain works.

As explained by Enrique Pérez Abellán, Iberdrola study of 1,500 points which is currently contracted the City and are distributed by the municipal, to detect those that occur in excessive consumption and savings could be susceptible.

According to Pérez Abellán, the electric bill the City around 3 million per year, a considerable amount can be reduced from this first study of the company, depending on the results, could result in a subsequent audit, as is already happening in the city of Murcia.

We will also see the possibility of signing agreements with the Ministry of Sustainable Development in this regard.

Another theme of the meeting was the burial of power lines from the center of the city, a project that was presented by the mayor to Iberdrola last October.

Patricio Valverde emphasized that such actions are going to carry out building works pedestrian already in place, but first you have to prevent problems that may arise and which revolve around protecting the facades of some buildings historical.

To avoid inconvenience to citizens, in future urban projects and municipal actions have been determined to provide for the burial of power lines, so that we should not be opening up the streets again and again.

Finally, the Iberdrola representatives have informed Pilar Barreiro of the big investments the company has launched in Cartagena, pointing out the two substations and Cartagena Mandarache West, which could be operating by 2011 or 2012 and represent an investment of about 20 million euros.

With them are five substations with which the municipality will have to serve a growing population and will continue in the coming years, while providing more reliable service to have greater energy boost.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena