May the 17th, 2022 - The brand new Dubrovnik public lighting system is set to save Croatia's southernmost city and tourist Mecca a significant two million kuna per year.

As the Republic of Croatia turns more and more towards the European Union's wider goal of becoming more green and employing much more environmentally friendly tactics across the board, public lighting systems and converting them from energy inefficiency to energy efficiency with the use of new lamps is one of the priorities across the country.

As Morski writes, the City of Dubrovnik has initiated a public procurement procedure for the project of the reconstruction and modernisation of the Dubrovnik public lighting system. Bids are being collected until June the 10th, and 14 million kuna has already been secured for this project which is set to save the city a decent amount of money each year.

The project of the complete reconstruction and modernisation of the Dubrovnik public lighting system includes 3739 obsolete lighting fixtures in the wider city area. The existing system consists of 46 different types of energy inefficient and environmentally unacceptable lamps, which will be replaced by high-efficiency LED lamps, they stated from the Dubrovnik city administration, emphasising that this will contribute to further environmental protection and the overall energy efficiency of Croatian public lighting systems.

They also stated that the annual financial savings on electricity costs that will be achieved by this reconstruction and modernisation of the Dubrovnik public lighting system, when compared to the current situation, will be more than two million kuna, and will significantly reduce the cost of maintaining the system on top of that as well.

The money needed for this Dubrovnik-based project will be secured by a HBOR loan with a repayment period of seven years and a fixed interest rate of 0.5 percent.

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