In a major public-private partnership (PPP) deal, the Municipality of L’Aquila has awarded a contract worth approximately €151.5 million for the energy-efficiency upgrade of its public-lighting network, municipal buildings and housing units under the CASE Project.
The contract extends over a 15-year period and will be delivered by a consortium led by Teckal S.p.A. (part of the Rekeep Group), together with Edison Next Government S.r.l., and local firms SPEE S.r.l. and VeBA S.n.c.
Under the agreement the consortium will finance the investment, complete the works within two years and then manage and maintain the systems for the remaining term. The municipality will pay an annual fee of about €8.1 million to cover services historically provided at that cost.
The scope includes lighting retrofit covering over 19 000 LED fixtures and remote-control and adaptive lighting on approximately 18 000 devices, as well as the upgrade of around 71 municipal buildings (approximately 80 % of the real-estate assets) and 150 housing units under the CASE Project. The building works include installation of ~1.2 MW of photovoltaic systems, heat-pump conversion, insulation, radiator replacement, and smart-monitoring systems.
Energy-savings targets: the building interventions are projected to reduce thermal energy consumption by ~40 % and electricity by ~42 %, while public-lighting upgrades aim at a ~66 % consumption cut. CO₂ emissions cuts are estimated at over 1 700 tons annually for buildings and over 1 600 tons for lighting.
The municipality described the contract as its largest ever and sees the PPP model as having the potential to enable “safer and more sustainable” urban infrastructure.
