Eficiência energética do sistema de iluminação da Orla Marítima de Maceió.

Abstract

Energy efficiency has gained notority and draws the attention of government and society "about" the lack of energetic resources and high fees "over" the usage of eletric energy; therefore, optimizating systems and equipments that uses eletric energy became recurrent. Street lighting systems can be used as an example here; as we optimize those systems, it will reduce public spendings and will attract investments, business oportunities and more security for the population. This final paper is, initially, intended to report the evolution of light bulbs, its concepts and terminologies for public road projects, showing the importance of energy efficiency in public lighting systems; then, a comparison between the previous and the new system of Maceió's seashore will be shown, explaining the strenghts that these changes have provided; lastly, it will be explained what Procel Reluz is and its importance.