3rd Conference on Energy Efficient Lighting: The Future of Energy Efficient Lighting (Sweden 2011)

Energy Efficient Outdoor Lighting in Argentina

Graciela Tonello

Departamento de Luminotecnia, Luz y Visión (Universidad Nacional de Tucumán). Instituto de Investigaciones en Luz, Ambiente y Visión (CONICET).

Types of Energy Supply

PETROLEO36%

NUCLEAR3%

HIDRO5%

CARBON1%

OTRO3%

GAS52%

Energy consumption by sector

National Program for Rational and Efficient Use of Energy (PRONUREE)

Objectives: “the adequacy of the production,

transportation, distribution, storage and consumption systems of energy, towards a more sustainable development with the technological means at hand, minimizing the impact on the environment, optimizing energy conservation and reducing the costs".

Subprograms • Residential areas: • Public Buildings • Street Lighting • Industries • Education

Complementary measures

• Daylight Saving Time

• Law Banning the Incandescent lamp from 2011

Consumption trends Blue line: Total projected consumption- Green line: consumption projected with PRONUREE

Buenos Aires

Argentine Street Lighting in numbers (until 2009)

Number of Luminaires: 2.860.000 units Energy consumption: 3.490 GWh Energy consumed: 4,2 % Average energy efficiency: 4- 50 W/100lx.m2

Distribution of Efficient and Inefficient lighting

Street Lighting: efficiency measures

• Replacement of incandescent and mercury lamps with high pressure sodium lamps.

• Installation of new luminaires and power attenuators

• Maintenance

Power consumption for Public Lighting

LEDs for traffic lights, signaling, monuments

The Spanish Monument, Bs. As.

Planetarium Galileo Galilei, Bs. As.

Electricity demand

ephemeral architecture

Tucumán

Córdoba

Rosario

Mendoza

Ushuaia

Information Sources

Secretaria de Energía de la Nación Argentina.

Departamento de Luminotecnia, Luz y Visión (Universidad Nacional de

Tucumán). Asociación Argentina de Luminotecnia.

ELI Argentina (Efficient Lighting Initiative). Universidad de la Punta (San Luis)

Estadísticas sector eléctrico.