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The Community will allocate 1.6 million euros from the EIB to support municipalities through a multidisciplinary team to help them improve energy conservation and efficiency
The president of the Community, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, presided yesterday, coinciding with the celebration of World Day for Energy Efficiency, a new meeting of the Covenant of Mayors, which was attended by all the mayors of the municipalities of the Region of Murcia , including the mayor of Jumilla, Enrique Jimenez.
According Valcarcel said, "municipalities have the help of the regional government to implement energy efficiency projects and renewable energy," and so to "give effect to the challenge of implementing measures to reduce emissions by 20 percent CO2 in their territory by 2020, "according to the objectives set by the European Union.
Under this act place presentation project 'Elena', an initiative promoted by the European Commission in 2009 and managed by the European Investment Bank (EIB), consisting of a line of support to provide technical assistance in energy efficiency projects had renewable energy and public administrations and private companies.
A program that includes the Autonomous Community through which the Region of Murcia has received a grant of 1.6 million euros from the EIB for the implementation of Action Plans for Sustainable Energy (PAES) in municipalities .
In particular, the Ministry of Industry, Enterprise and Innovation, through the Institute of Development, this grant allocated to create a multidisciplinary and specialized equipment to give legal, economic and technical support to municipalities to incorporate energy saving measures and efficiency aspects as street lighting, efficient buildings and the inclusion of renewable energy.
Its development will promote the revitalization of the economy in the municipalities and boost the renewable energy sector, as generated by investments worth 40 million euros.
It will allow further progress on the path to energy savings, an aspect that highlights the Region of Murcia, located at the head of the autonomous communities in the Energy Efficiency Index that makes Natural Gas Fenosa.
Integrated and sustainable urbanism Model
In that vein, the regional chief executive urged mayors to "seize the possibilities of financing from the EIB for you advance in the development and implementation of your Action Plans for Sustainable Energy."
Some plans, he said, "are feasible and which are fundamental to your municipalities move towards an integrated and sustainable urban planning model, in which the energy and climate aspects play a decisive role and provide new opportunities for local development."
It also found that "provide collateral benefits that go beyond improving environmental, advantages in terms of improved quality of life, a better delivery of public services, greater energy security and, is more important, the creation of jobs. "
Finally, the president of the Community noted how governments have to "work to create energy systems that enable the development of a sustainable economy," and encouraged municipalities to "be an example on energy efficiency and the use of renewables ", but not before the mayors reiterate that" we are at your side to meet the objectives set by the European Union and put all the effort in achieving a more sustainable tomorrow. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla
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