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Miguel Angel House presides over the establishment of the Energy Committee, will participate in developing the Action Plan that will optimize our efficiency and enable lower emissions of CO ₂

Murcia was one of the first cities which joined the Covenant of Mayors and is ahead in the Diagnosis of the Municipality Energy

Murcia was one of the first cities to join the European Covenant of Mayors for sustainability.

Now, it has also taken the lead in developing an energy assessment and the creation of Municipal Energy Committee, two commitments made by the Mayor, Miguel Ángel Cámara, to Murcia betting continue to advance environmental conservation environment, promoting strategies to combat climate change. "

In this way, it was necessary to have a Municipal Energy Assessment that would enable accurate X-ray energy in Murcia, so also discover the situation and what steps should be taken in future to reduce more than 20% gas emissions greenhouse in 2020.

Its development has to know where Murcia is in relation to consumption, the use of renewable, emissions, etc.

and now is the Energy Committee in charge of presenting an action plan with appropriate concrete measures to reduce CO ₂ emissions.

The Committee will start with a draft prepared by the City and German, and that the Committee, under the principle of participatory democracy, should assess and make proposals.

Part of this council representatives of business organizations, professional associations, neighborhood associations, institutions, etc.

All the Mayor has invited them to "gamble with ambition and add the necessary efforts to achieve Murcia out successfully in the fight against climate change."

House has claimed that participation because "it's a bet that the City and German can not win alone.

It is imperative that citizens become aware that personal and social partners are involved on a collective level, each in its sector and scope. "

The new committee has begun its journey today, has been constituted under the chairmanship of Mayor and President of ALEM, Miguel Angel House, and will have among its tasks, and create an Action Plan for Sustainable Energy, to promote the implementation of measures energy efficiency, cleaner energy production and use analysis and review and evaluate the effectiveness of the Plan and its implementation until 2020.

A plan is conceived as a way to improve the competitiveness of the economic fabric of the municipality and to be forwarded to the European Commission.

That will happen when you incorporate the ideas and suggestions that provide social actors present in the committee and the Murcia who want to be part of the process.

Finally, be presented for adoption by the plenary.

Lower consumption and lower emissions

Energy Diagnosis Murcia Municipal records indicate that per capita consumption below the national average and even regional -1.52 tonnes of oil equivalent (toe) per year, compared to 1.63 of the average of the autonomous region and 2.39 in Spain, and the most important energy source is electricity, while natural gas represents only 6%, almost 3 times less than the national average.

Emissions per capita per year in the municipality are 6.42 tons of CO ₂ / year, lower than the national average -9.79 - -8.52 and -. regional average

In total, in 2007 were issued in Murcia 2.7 million tons of CO _2.

The Covenant of Mayors assumed that in 2020 must emit 470,000 tons less, so that the plan should aim to have cut 200,000 tonnes per year between 2009-2020 to achieve the objective, which will save energy worth 48 million euros year.

Part of the route has already been made.

Since two years ago launched the local strategy to combat climate change have been implemented 95 measures that have reduced over 48,000 tons CO ₂ / year, you have to add actions already implemented but can not be still not yet be accounted for by offsetting emissions as planting trees (68,000 tCO2/yr) or the installation of three solar photovoltaic plants on land under concession municipal state-owned land (37.000tCO2/año).

Among the projects include photovoltaic systems (in the Majal Blanco, the observatory and pergolas in schools), the gradual replacement of conventional lights LED technology, the use of biodiesel in public transport, more efficient lighting, production electric power plant landfill biogas or subsidies to promote energy efficiency.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia