In Berlin
Berlin nights are darker than usual.
In the dark, one can only guess the winged goddess at the top of the Victory Column, the equestrian statue of Frederick the Great or the facade of the cathedral.
To admire them, the walker will have to wait for sunrise.
And for good reason: the municipality ordered the extinction of the night lighting of 200 historical monuments.
Each spot must be turned off manually, one after the other.
Cost of the operation: no less than 40,000 euros.
But no matter the budget:
it is the energy savings that push us to take this measure, and not the immediate profitability
, explains the city, which underlines that the lighting of the buildings concerned consumes
"around 200,000 kilowatt hours per year"
.
An impressive figure which, however, only corresponds to the average annual consumption of 200 French people, according to the electricity supplier comparator Selectra.
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