The Ibiza City Council has finished installing all 1,475 LED luminaires planned under its municipal public lighting overhaul, an intervention delivered by energy services firm Edison Next and financed through the European Union’s NextGenerationEU recovery funds. The council announced completion on 3 July 2026. The project, concentrated in the Balearic island city of Eivissa, replaces obsolete fixtures with corrosion-resistant LED units and cuts annual lighting consumption by 41.5 percent, from 593,776 kWh to 347,337 kWh, while avoiding an estimated 64 tonnes of CO2 emissions each year.
A Coastal Grid Rebuilt For Salt Air And Lower Loads
The specification centers on luminaires chosen for durability in a marine environment, a recurring engineering constraint for island municipalities where salt corrosion shortens fixture life. Units were supplied by Signify, the former Philips lighting business, alongside Spanish street furniture and lighting makers Benito and Roura. The fixtures run a warm 3,000 K color temperature intended to improve visual comfort and limit skyglow over the island’s night environment.
Alongside the fixtures, 23 electrical control cabinets were rebuilt with upgraded protection and control systems. The new luminaires are rated above 100,000 operating hours, which the council expects to lower maintenance frequency and cost. Installed capacity falls from 134.5 kW to 92.3 kW, a reduction of roughly 31.4 percent.
Where The €651,000 Contract Landed After A Steep Bid Drop
The works were awarded to Edison Next Spain for a final contract value of €651,430.87, a reduction of more than 43 percent against the tender base of €1,148,002.61 including VAT, according to trade outlet smartlighting. The tender was published in March 2025 and drew ten bids, an indication of the competitive pricing environment for EU-funded lighting work in Spain. Edison Next Spain is the energy and environmental services arm of the Edison group, itself part of French utility EDF.
The contractor’s footprint in the region is not limited to this project. Edison Next holds a multi-year public lighting concession in nearby Sant Josep de Sa Talaia and, on the mainland, shares a public lighting maintenance contract in Seville valued at more than €28 million across two lots, underscoring how energy service companies are consolidating municipal lighting portfolios.
Telemanagement Turns Fixed Lamps Into A Controllable Asset
The new system layers in telemanagement and intelligent control, allowing the council to monitor consumption in real time, dim output by schedule, and adapt light levels to the needs of each zone. This shifts the network from a fixed on/off asset to a remotely managed one, where dimming during low-traffic hours delivers savings beyond the raw efficiency of LED conversion. Edison Next has committed to circular-economy handling of the removed equipment, with decommissioned materials recycled or recovered through authorized waste managers.
Benchmarks: 18 Percent Of The City’s Points And A Selective Scope
Ibiza’s municipal network carries roughly 8,000 light points, so the 1,475 replaced fixtures represent about 18 percent of the total, targeted at cabinets feeding the city center and high-density zones. Before the works, many units still relied on obsolete high-pressure sodium and metal halide lamps, while an estimated 27 percent were early LEDs installed in 2009 and were included in the refresh due to age-related decline. The council frames the annual saving of more than 246,000 kWh as roughly equivalent to the electricity use of 75 average households, and the emissions cut as comparable to planting around 3,000 trees.
“Ultimately, this action aligns with the objectives of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, advancing toward a more efficient, sustainable and environmentally respectful city model,” said Jordi Grivé, fourth deputy mayor and councilor for Environmental Management and Cleaning at Ibiza City Council, in the council’s July 2026 statement.
