The first place turns off the streetlights at night – Salzburg
The energy crisis has hit Austria in full. The lights go out in a Salzburg community at midnight.
It’s getting a little darker this year in Vienna at Christmas time. As reported, the ring will have to do without street lighting. On Rathausplatz it is not switched on completely, but not at dusk, but only when it is completely dark.
One does not want to “put Vienna in the shade”, but “save sensibly”, according to Finance City Councilor Peter Hanke (SPÖ). Elsewhere, more radical steps need to be taken now.
way home in the dark
Since the beginning of the month, the municipality of Fusch on Großglocknerstraße in Pinzgau has not had the streets continuously illuminated at night, reports the “Salzburger Nachrichten”. Instead of being based on light sensors, as before, the lighting is turned off completely at midnight.
In winter you want to go a slightly different route. Because it is often still pitch dark here when work begins, the lighting is to be switched on again at 5:30 a.m. As a result, Mayor Hannes Schernthaner (ÖVP) calculates in the “SN” that each lantern is switched on around 2,000 hours less per year.
That would probably be worth it: With a consumption of over 26,000 kilowatt hours per year, the lighting is the second largest power guzzler in the municipality after the swimming pool pumps. In order to save even more energy, they also want to convert to LEDs and, as a further step, to motion detectors.