The happy winners with Jean Schréder - President of the Schréder Group, Jean-Michel Daclin - President of LUCI and Luc de Lamalle, Schréder Group Communication Director.
Mrs. Claudia Reich-Schilcher, Head of Public Lighting for the city of Berlin, Street Development Department within the Senate of Berlin accepted the prize during an award ceremony held in Lyon on 7th December 2009.
The city of Berlin drew up an impressive lighting plan which is part of a more global objective linked to climate changes that requires the city to make dramatic energy savings of between 30 to 50%. To date, nearly 1,000 luminaires have been replaced which has enabled the city to achieve annual savings of 637,000kWH/year and 382 tons of CO2!
The jury appreciated the massive scale of this lighting plan which generates huge energy savings and a substantially reduced carbon footprint.
Second prize was awarded to the city of Lyon for the illumination of the Saint-Just College. The jury was impressed by the aesthetic enhancement of the city landscape, with the technologies used. The installation of photovoltaic panels on the roof will generate 34% of the energy needed to illuminate this historic building – 4,800kWH per year of the 14,000kWH consumed will be produced on-site.
The city of Westminster was awarded the third prize for the Westbourne Green Regeneration lighting project. Part of a larger renovation plan, this project replaced the landscape, road and footpath lighting with high-performing luminaires equipped with a combination of technologies (LEDs, remote management system, dimming) that allows the city to make savings of 72,000kWH per year and cut CO2 emissions by 31 tons per year.
For this first edition of the Auroralia award, an impressive 23 nominations were received from 22 cities. A six-person jury, composed mainly of journalists from specialized magazines in urban lighting and sustainability deliberated over the entries, and selected the winners based on many criteria, the main one being the environmental impact of the project.
Berlin, Germany
Saint-Just College - Lyon, France
Westminster, United Kingdom
For more information, visit the Auroralia web site at www.auroralia.org