Public Lighting

An instrument of Citizenship

Lighting plays a primordial role in our lives, whether it is for lighting service or residential buildings, industrial lighting, signage lighting or public lighting.

Public Lighting is directly related to the humanization of spaces, namely the responsibility of creating safe and comfortable spaces during the period of absence of natural light. Like many other sectors, public lighting is also undergoing profound technological changes in the context of the digital revolution and the new services to be offered to smart cities. 

In a vision of Public Lighting management as smart and shared with municipalities, we actively collaborate in the definition and application of best practice, defining the type and level of lighting appropriate to daily life and the local environment of each public space, choosing the most appropriate equipment, to ensure interoperability with the solutions chosen by municipalities. 

Aiming to reduce 40% of Greenhouse Gas emissions (compared to 1990 values) by 2030, we contribute to the National Plan for Energy and Climate 2030 (PNEC) with different energy efficiency measures to be adopted at the Public Lighting level. 

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STREET LIGHTING
The Role of E-REDES
E-REDES is responsible for the distribution of low voltage electricity in the 278 municipalities of mainland Portugal, on an exclusive basis, and is committed to reducing consumption of public lighting. The implementation, conservation and management of the IP networks is the responsibility of the municipalities, but under the terms of the concession contracts for low voltage electricity distribution networks, the municipalities have delegated this responsibility to the distributor – E-REDES.
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LED TECHNOLOGY
LED TECHNOLOGY

Since the start of the LED campaigns in 2016, we have installed more than 896,000 LED luminaires, with very significant economic and environmental benefits:

  • Reduced consumption of 384,000 MWh of electricity.
  • Savings of 40.4 million euros in municipal bills.
  • Reduction of 67,000 tonnes of CO₂ emissions. By 2022, the investment plan estimates the installation of 225,000 LED luminaires, which will contribute to the goal of reducing carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions into the atmosphere by 172 ktCO2eq by 2025.
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Public Lighting Numbers

83 ktCO2
CO2 emissions avoided per year (data 1st semester 2024)
360 GWh
Energy saved per year with the installation of LED luminaires (data from 1st semester 2024)
2000000
LED luminaires installed (by 1st semester 2024)
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