Eight new agreements were signed by the municipalities of the Riyadh Region to replace 74,000 traditional lamps with energy-saving LED lamps
The National Energy Efficiency Services Company "Tarsheed" has signed framework agreements with a number of municipalities of the Riyadh Region Municipality, according to which "Tarsheed" will replace traditional lighting lamps with other pilot lights and work with smart systems (LED), in the presence of His Highness Prince Faisal bin Abdulaziz bin Ayyaf District Secretary, at the headquarters of the Secretariat for Municipal Affairs.
These agreements included the municipalities of “Hurimla, Ad-Dalam, Afif, Al-Hariq, Artawiyah, Thadiq, Ramah, and Al-Ruwaida.” These agreements aim to raise the operational efficiency of energy, reduce its consumption, remove unnecessary lamps while maintaining the necessary level for traffic safety, and setting standards A unified classification for street lighting to reach the global level in accordance with the Saudi standards issued by the Saudi Organization for Standardization, Metrology and Quality.
The managing director and CEO of "Tarsheed" company, Walid bin Abdullah Al-Ghariri, explained that the Riyadh Municipality was one of the first bodies that the company worked on rehabilitating its street lighting, praising the cooperation that the company finds from employees of the municipality, and the Municipality Agency for District Municipalities.
He indicated that the company concluded 12 previous agreements with the region’s municipality, which included the municipalities of “Al-Kharj, Wadi Al-Dawasir, Hawtat Bani Tamim, Al-Aflaj, Al-Hadar, Al-Hilweh, Al-Hayatham, Al-Badi ', Al-Ahmar, Al-Hayyaniyah and Al-Barak, Shaqra and Al-Qasab.” The company will soon sign 27 agreements. To include the remaining 47 municipalities belonging to the district municipality.
It is noteworthy that Tarsheed aims, through these eight agreements, to replace 74,000 traditional "sodium" lamps, and it is expected that through the implementation of these projects, it will achieve savings of more than 70% of current consumption, which is equivalent to avoiding more than 48 thousand metric tons of harmful carbon emissions. That is, the environmental impact of planting about 810 thousand trees.
