A Saudi ministry has completed the rehabilitation of its lighting system by converting all the lights to energy saving lamps.
This step reflects the Kingdom’s approach to increase energy efficiency and reduce consumption, in line with international standards and local qualifications in the government sector.
The National Energy Services Company (Tarshid) has completed the first phase of its rehabilitation project for the headquarters of the Ministry of the National Guard in Riyadh.
It replaced 18,000 lighting lamps in the Ministry’s facilities in the residential, medical and academic cities in the capital.
This project is expected to save power by about 15.5 million kilowatts per hour at least annually.
Managing Director and CEO of Tarshid Waleed AL-Ghreeri has affirmed that the first phase included rehabilitating the lighting in the ministry’s 21 buildings in Riyadh, which have a total area of 117,000 square meters.
The company replaced more than 22,000 lamps to LED, which has a high performance in reducing thermal emissions and diffusing light to suit the work environment, in addition to reducing power consumption, he explained.
Ghreeri noted that the previous consumption of lighting was 5.2 million kilowatt hours per year, expecting to reach 2.1 million kilowatt hours per year, about a 58 percent drop.
The expected savings from the recent project is similar to avoiding 11,000 metric tons of harmful carbon emissions, which is equivalent to planting about 184,700 trees annually.
