of the
public lighting service
The lighting system in Santa Susanna is cu-
rrently being upgraded in order to improve
its efficiency after the municipal technicians
became aware of the obsolescence of
most of the installations, the huge electricity
bill, the lack of maintenance and sufficient
investments to ensure adequate lighting
services.
The objective of this article is to briefly ex-
plain the progress achieved since they be-
came aware of the problem until now. So
far, FCC has replaced about 3,000 lights.
An in-depth analysis of the all the aspects
of the original scenario is the only way of
assessing the suitability and viability of a
project such as the one underway in Santa
Susanna.
Contract awarded to FCC
Last February 2013, the City Council of
Santa Susanna and FCC Citizen Services
executed a contract for the energy supply
and end-to-end management of the city’s
public lighting system. The term, of the
contract for the comprehensive manage-
ment of this lighting system has a term of
10 years and 4 months and is worth a total
of 3,614,278 euros.
The services to be provided include energy
supply and management, preventive main-
tenance, full guarantee of the installations,
the initial investment for the upgrading of
the lighting system, and the promotion of
energy efficiency improvements.
Year 2011. Point “0”. Drafting of the
public lighting master plan.
In 2009, the City Council lacked an inven-
tory of the points of light throughout the city,
a map of the network, the location of the
panels, and of the power; in fact, it lacked
nearly everything. It was obvious that the
facilities had to be upgraded. As a result of
Knowledge
Upgrading
and
management
in Santa Susanna (Barcelona) through an Energy
Services Company (ESC) model.
By: Luis Pujol
Technical Architect of the
Santa Susana (Barcelona)
Teresa de Ugarte
Director of ENEFI
FCC Energy Efficiency
Xavier Grau Alafont, director of the Environment
Production Department in Barcelona (capital)
was in charge of giving the opening speech at
the seminar.
3
rd
Energy Services Congress
