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The air quality and energy efficiency are also areas that determine the public space. Barcelona wants to contribute to the fight against climate change by improving energy efficiency and reduce dependence on fossil fuels and emissions of greenhouse gases. That's why the city promotes energy conservation and energy efficiency, promoting renewable energy and encourages the improvement of environmental quality of urban environment, focusing on areas such as noise or lighting quality air.

Solar Ordinance Business Agent

The integral manager of the Solar Ordinance Business Agent (GIOS) intends to be a tool useful and practical on-line addressed to the professionals of the sector, to help them carrying out the development of projects of facilities of thermal and photovoltaic solar energy, and that simplifies the procedures for the obtaining of the corresponding municipal licenses.

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Enter into the web site of the Factory of the Sun!

The equipment of information and environmental education, placed in the antique offices of the Catalan factory of Gas, uses its web site for the first time this Tuesday 19th March.

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Barcelona prova una nova tecnologia per reduir la contaminació de l'aire

Medi ambient. Consisteix a incorporar uns additius a l'aigua de la neteja dels carrers que aglomeren les partícules contaminants i impedeixen que s'aixequin i escampin al pas dels vehicles.

The public lighting of Barcelona adapts itself to the change early and reduces the public lighting of Barcelona

The more than 115.000 points of light of the city retrieve the usual schedule|timetable of winter to adapt the luminous levels of the public space to|in the activity and the needs of the city. The hourly change allows a saving of 0,5% of the energetic consumption of the public lighting.

The project "LIVE", of impulse in the electrical vehicle, wins the European Prize Territoria 2011

The award, which pressed the projects that improve the quality on duty of the local administrations, has been conceded for the Observatory of the Public Innovation in France.

The new biomass plant will convert gardening waste into renewable energy

The new biomass plant in the Zona Franca has already entered into operation. This first installation will allow the forestry waste from the city's parks and gardens to be converted into renewable energy, allowing energy costs to be controlled and reducing environmental pollution.

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