The Bilbao cemetery, the most sustainable in the State
Before the end of the year, it is expected that the pair of cemetery maintenance vehicles be electrical. Several will even be installed charging points abroad so that users can make use of them while visiting the cemetery, whether for family reasons or simply to tour these facilities and ‘get lost’ in their silence and among their numerous works of art. another step in the bilbao city council’s commitment to the sustainability of these facilities, located in derio.
Those that have been given to date are not few. In fact, there have been so many and so important that they have earned him an award at the state level that today was collected in Madrid by Yolanda Díez, deputy mayor and councilor for Health and Consumption. Those solar panels were the beginning of this process that has led to sustainable facilities being entirely and are aligned with the City Council’s environmental policy: CO2 neutrality, resilience to climate change and “being healthy in environmental quality”.
The performance has been carried out on the deck of ten buildings intended for niches and on the gabled roof of the locker room building cemetery staff. The facility operates on a self-consumption connected to the electrical network; that is to say, the excess energy passes to the network, thus obtaining compensation for surpluses in the bill from the electricity company. In this way, Bilbao Zerbitzuak obtains returns from the excess energy produced, in the event that it is not needed for consumption.
But it is that in addition to this distinction, Bilbao Zerbitzuak -municipal entity that manages these facilities- has achieved another one in the category of Best Public Activity. This award has been granted by the magazine ‘Adiós Cultural’ for the guided and dramatized night tour held this past summer for a hundred people.
The deputy mayor highlighted the strategy of the Bilbao City Council to understand and transform its municipal cemeteries, “into a new version of a service adapted to modernity, to the new concepts of life and death”. A way of acting that aims to “recognize the historical, social, environmental, artistic and patrimonial interest of cemeteries” and “reclaim them as places full of life” and even as another tourist resource.