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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, April 12, 2021

QUESTION NO. 21

QUESTION: Councillor Derren Ó Brádaigh

To ask the Chief Executive to provide a detailed report on the progression of works to date versus actual planned targets for the upgrading to energy efficient lighting for public street lights, council administered buildings and existing housing stock in the county, as part of the collaborative unified Climate Change Action Plan 2019 - 2024 for the four Dublin local authorities.

REPLY:

Public lighting is South Dublin County Councils largest energy-user. Public -lighting LED Replacement Programme Phase 1 ( 2014-2020) has to date replaced 9,689 55W-Sox lamps  with LED replacements. Phase 2 of this project is designed to  address an additional 4,000 Sox-lamps with 1500 of these programmed for 2021. Public lighting has improved its energy performance by 34.5% since the baseline year of 2011, this represents and absolute reduction of 9.8GWh of primary energy and 3,450 tonnes of CO2 (SDCC 2019 Energy review).

County Hall is the largest energy -user in terms of a building. Phases 1 and 2 of the Building LED Replacement Programme are completed and Phase 3 is 40% completed to date. Of a total nett floor area of 16, 328 sq. metres , 6, 172 sq. metres has been relamped with LED fittings. This constitutes 38% of total floor area. This accounts for a reduction of 162, 724 Kw/hrs/yr , the annual equivalent of 53 tonnes of CO2

Energy-upgrade programmes have not to date included LED replacement lighting in Council housing stock due to previous scope limitations . This can be reviewed in light of the  new Retrofitting Programme for Social Housing announced by Dept. of Housing, Planning and Local Government in February of this year.