The funding request involves the modernization of the existing lighting system on all streets in the municipality, with lighting devices with LED technology, support consoles, as well as the implementation of a remote lighting control system and sensors for the entire lighting system.

"Each citizen of Brasov, regardless of the area in which he lives or works, must feel that he is in a civilized, modern, safe, European city, and an important part of this objective concerns public infrastructure, regardless of whether we are talking about paved streets and sidewalks, green areas, playgrounds, nurseries, and kindergartens or public lighting. Yesterday, AFM published the list of projects financed under the Program for increasing the energy efficiency of the public lighting infrastructure, through which Brașov obtained the maximum amount granted to a first-class municipality. We are about to sign the financing contract. It is part of a project of over RON 26 million (€5.2 million) through which Brașov will have a modern, efficient, economical, intelligent, and environmentally friendly public lighting system", declared the mayor of Brasov, Allen Coliban.

The energy audit, design, technical assistance, consultancy, purchase, and installation of a lighting system fully equipped with dimmers (devices that allow changing and adapting the light flow to certain conditions) remote management for 8,425 lamps, and the advertising information part are financed.

The program is divided into three phases. For the first phase, approximately 2,000 lighting fixtures are targeted, with an estimated value of RON 6 million (€1.2 million). The value includes the purchase and installation of lighting fixtures with LED technology, consoles, conductors for connections, accessories, ignition points, and zone remote management systems, which will complement the existing remote management system.

The purpose of the Program on increasing the energy efficiency of the public lighting infrastructure is to improve the quality of the environment by reducing greenhouse gas emissions through the use of lighting fixtures with LED sources, which determine high energy efficiency and minimal light pollution, as well as the purchase and installation of telemanagement systems, which allow the regulation of the light flow at the level of the entire investment objective.

"In its strategy to become a "greener" city, the municipality of Brașov intends to improve the public lighting infrastructure of the city, so as to achieve the following objectives: reducing the annual energy consumption in public lighting; improving the quality of street lighting by bringing the system up to the level of the provisions of the standards and regulations in force; reducing the municipality's costs related to electricity and the related maintenance of the public lighting service", states the mayor's office in Brasov.

These objectives can be achieved by replacing lighting devices and support consoles with devices with LED technology and implementing the lighting control system through remote management and sensors.

Currently, in the municipality of Brașov, the public lighting system includes 15,250 lighting devices.

Also through non-refundable funds from the AFM, a project to replace over 300 lighting fixtures in the Stupini district (Albiner, Fagurului, Fântânii, Morilor, Nicovalei, Oițelor, Paşunii, Surlașului, Târgluui streets) was completed, with a total value of approximately RON 1 million (€200,000), of which 90% are non-refundable funds.

The third phase of the public lighting expansion project is in the stage of finalizing the technical project and obtaining a building permit, an investment of almost RON 15 million (€3 million) including VAT, from the local budget. This means the extension of the public lighting network on 38 streets or sections of new streets, most of them in the Bartolomeu Nord and Stupini neighborhoods. In total, this investment means the installation of approximately 22 kilometers of the network, 871 new poles, 917 LED lighting fixtures, and 917 telemanagement modules, to which is added the additional lighting of pedestrian crossings.

In parallel, work is being done on the documentation necessary to launch the procurement procedure for the preparation of the feasibility study for the IV stage, which will have two components: one aimed at the expansion of the streets or sections of new streets that have entered the public domain, and the second, to modernize the facilities in the courtyards of the educational units.