Damascus-SANA
During the first half of this year, the Directorate of Lighting and Electricity in Damascus Governorate implemented the installation of lighting poles and energy-saving devices and the maintenance of many lighting devices in the streets, squares, parks of the city and its neighborhoods.
The executed works included more than 600 lighting devices, 150 poles and 5700 lamps of various types, which the directorate’s workshops, in cooperation with the Damascus branch of the General Company for Electricity and Communication Works (Syrian Networks), installed during the first half of the year, according to the director of lighting in the governorate, Engineer Ziad Saada, who stated in a statement Today's delegate told SANA that the workshops extended various electrical cables estimated at about 20,000 linear meters and plastic pipes of more than 21,000 linear meters, in addition to 40 complete electrical panels.
According to Saada, the workshops replaced many traditional lighting devices (sodium vapor lamps) with energy-saving devices using LED technology in a number of city streets. They installed devices in a number of neighborhoods within the governorate plan aimed at rationalizing energy consumption and reducing maintenance costs, pointing to the implementation of maintenance work. And repairing electrical and mechanical equipment in the lakes of the Umayyad and Abbasid yards, and sludge pumps for all tunnels in the city, and maintaining and repairing the generating sets affiliated to all governorate directorates.
Saada indicated that the workshops had completed the rehabilitation and maintenance of the road connecting from Abbasid Square towards Jobar and the road extending from the Abbasid garages to the Police College in Barzeh, in addition to the Qaboun node, where the works included the installation of lighting poles, energy saving devices and the extension of electrical cables, in addition to preparing the Ramadan Charity Market that was held on the land Old Damascus exhibition with cables, casting the bases of lighting poles, installing poles, devices, headlights and electrical panels
Saada stressed that the governorate will continue to implement and install solar-powered lighting devices, in addition to equipping citizen service centers with solar-powered devices to take advantage of alternative energies.
Firas Safi
