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Milan efficient, safe and eco-sustainable
Milan, the second largest city in Italy, has reinvented
itself to appear in a more efficient, eco-sustainable
and safer light. It is the first large city in Europe
to take the decision to upgrade, on a large scale,
its road lighting to LED. AEC Illuminazione, which
won the tender from the regional energy supplier
(A2A S.p.A.), has installed 100 000 ITALO lanterns.
Significant savings in energy and maintenance
costs, state-of-the-art luminaire design and a dis-
tinctly improved quality of light for the streets and
lanes of the urban metropolis, won AEC lluminazi-
one the contract. The ‘Milan LED’ project has prof-
fered a 51,8% reduction in energy costs and a 31%
general cost cutting. Milan’s city hall stands to save
10 million euros on energy in the first year alone.
Milan has implemented a true city restyling
so everything is in line with the most modern
Smart City. When a city chooses LED luminaires,
it makes an ecological choice. LEDs have allowed
Milan to obtain many advantages in terms of eco-
sustainability: the city will release 23 650 less tons
of CO
2
and use some 60 000 less lamps each year
– this means that nine tons of RAEE refuse will be
saved a year. In addition, all the mercury and other
polluting materials used in the previous lamps have
been removed.
ITALO luminaires emit comfort and homog-
enous light for ideal visual conditions. The use
of new LED technology has led to an increase in
reliability, safety and efficiency and the luminaires
have completely changed the urban landscape of
Milan in full compliance with reference standards
on light pollution. The LEDs concentrate the light
emission towards streets and pavements without
any upward emission.
www. aecilluminazione.com
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