{"id":3629,"date":"2026-06-12T11:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T11:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/new-public-lighting-system-will-reduce-energy-consumption-by-40\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T11:51:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T11:51:03","slug":"new-public-lighting-system-will-reduce-energy-consumption-by-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/en\/new-public-lighting-system-will-reduce-energy-consumption-by-40\/","title":{"rendered":"New public lighting system will reduce energy consumption by 40%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Regional Secretary for Equipment and Infrastructure, Pedro Rodrigues, presented a pioneering pilot project aimed at modernizing the public lighting network in the Autonomous Region of Madeira. With an investment of 2.1 million euros funded by the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR), the new system will allow for a savings of approximately 40% in public highway energy consumption.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The initiative involved the installation of 8,750 high-efficiency LED luminaires distributed across the region&#8217;s 11 municipalities, having their operation and energy expenses will be fully monitored and controlled from a central remote management system located in the Empresa de Eletricidade da Madeira (EEM) building, which also facilitates the rapid detection of network faults and reduces associated maintenance costs.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pedro Rodrigues explains that the infrastructure is prepared for all municipalities to join the system through their own investment, being expected to bring a significant financial return to the local authorities, with an estimated reduction of four million euros per year in the global electricity bill.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find out more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jm-madeira.pt\/regiao\/novo-sistema-de-modernizacao-da-iluminacao-publica-permitira-reduzir-consumo-energetico-em-40-EH20140150\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Regional Secretary for Equipment and Infrastructure, Pedro Rodrigues, presented a pioneering pilot project aimed at modernizing the public lighting network in the Autonomous Region of Madeira. With an investment of 2.1 million euros funded by the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR), the new system will allow for a savings of approximately 40% in public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[123,411,412],"class_list":["post-3629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-sustentabilidade-en","tag-prr","tag-empresa-de-eletricidade-da-madeira"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3630,"href":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629\/revisions\/3630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}