Today (Wednesday 19 June) the press conference “Public lighting: the public-private partnership between the Municipality and Edison Next for a smart and sustainable city” was held in the Blue Room, during which the mayor Roberto Dipiazza and the municipal councilor at Project Financing Everest Bertoli, with the interventions of Raffaele Bonardi, Business to Government Director of Edison Next and Domenico Cervelli, North-East Business to Government Area Director of Edison Next, announced the start of the energy and technological redevelopment project of the public lighting in Trieste.
Mayor Roberto Dipiazza declared: “Welcome to Trieste, I believe that the Edison group needs no introduction. My desire is to further improve the city and, thanks to the redevelopment of public lighting, to also increase safety. I therefore wish you good work.”
Thus the municipal councilor for Project Financing Everest Bertoli: “In today’s press conference we present the second step of the vision of this Municipal Administration in terms of redevelopment and regeneration of its technological park. In January we talked about heating and lighting buildings, the step we are talking about today constitutes the completion of our city redevelopment program.”
Everest Bertoli concluded: “I would like to point out that we are not talking exclusively about public lighting but about the desire, this is the challenge, to transform Trieste into one of the first smart cities in Italy. Naturally, energy saving is also very important, not only for the municipality’s coffers but because these savings will allow us to generate resources to reinvest in other sectors of municipal competence, such as social services, schools, roads.”
Edison Next, a company of the Edison Group that accompanies cities, territories and companies in the path of decarbonization and ecological transition, will launch the energy, technological, management and maintenance requalification service of Trieste’s public lighting starting from July 1st.
The contract will have a duration of thirteen years and the efficiency works will guarantee important benefits in energy and environmental terms: in fact, annual energy savings of over 70% are expected compared to 2023, with a reduction in atmospheric emissions of approximately 3,900 tons of CO2 per year.
Thus Raffaele Bonardi, Business to Government Director of Edison Next: “Edison Next is committed to the energy requalification of public lighting in 300 Italian cities. Today we are happy to also support Trieste, a city of great historical, artistic and architectural value, strengthening our commitment to accompanying cities and territories on their path to decarbonisation and sustainability. Our objective is to return to the local community an enhanced, more usable and safe urban environment, significantly reducing the energy requirement and the environmental and economic impact of the public lighting service. Considering that the efficiency of public lighting represents the ideal driver for the development of smart services, with this project we will also be able to implement solutions with high added value for the city and citizens in the Trieste area, which will bring them a concrete benefit in terms of improving the quality of life.”
The lighting redevelopment interventions include the LED efficiency improvement of over 20,000 light points, the integration of the public lighting system perimeter with the addition of 400 new light points, the embellishment of 1,100 lighting fixtures which, with the relative supports, will be transformed from traditional to decorative, the installation of adaptive lighting systems on over 700 light points and a point-to-point remote control system on over 19,000 light points and “island” remote management on 295 electrical power panels. This system, by detecting the performance data of the infrastructure, will allow the manager and the Municipal Administration to verify the correct management and regular functioning of the systems.
The territorial area that will be served is 84 km2, from the center to the outskirts. The citizens who will benefit from the service will be around 200,000.
Furthermore, the management of all 26,000 city lighting points, the replacement of 235 electrical panels and the upgrading of a further 60 existing panels, as well as the replacement of 1,300 supports and the construction of 30 kilometers of new underground electrical lines in replacement of existing overhead ones, and the laying of a dedicated cable duct for the distribution of optical fibre. The management service will include ordinary and extraordinary maintenance of the plant infrastructure.
With a view to service and proximity to the community, a contact center service has been set up for all citizens, active 365 days a year 24 hours a day, which citizens will be able to find on the Edison Next website and on that of the municipality starting from first of July.
Significant interventions will also be carried out in the smart city sector: among the many projects, in particular, the modernization of the existing control room at the S. Sebastiano Barracks which will supervise the video surveillance service, and a new general control center for the systems, located at a location identified by the Municipality of Trieste, interconnected to the city’s fiber optic network. Furthermore, the implementation of more than 200 video surveillance and license plate reading systems, the installation of control units for air quality control and weather detection stations, the creation of a smart parking system for monitoring parking spaces are envisaged. parking for disabled people, the implementation of new hot-spots for wi-fi, the installation of charging systems for electric vehicles and AED systems (columns with automatic defibrillator).
As regards urban mobility interventions, 50 illuminated pedestrian crossings will be created, 66 traffic light regulators will be replaced, 40 v-tec vehicle traffic analysis systems will be implemented (video-imaging system which allows the detection, monitoring of traffic and classification of vehicles) and installed buttons and acoustic devices for the blind near 38 city intersections (out of a total of 98).
Finally, particular attention will be paid to the enhancement of the city’s street furniture: 15 sites – including Piazza Unità d’Italia and the Castle of San Giusto – will be enhanced with architectural lighting interventions. In particular, the installation of 470 projectors and dedicated devices for artistic and architectural lighting projects is planned.
