Poing turns off the light: It stays dark here and energy is saved
Created: 02/10/2022, 06:00
By: Armin Roesl
The Poing lettering is no longer illuminated.
© Armin Roesl
In Poing, the lights stay off at night in many public places and buildings.
Greetings from the energy and climate crisis.
Where energy is saved everywhere:
Poing – Even if the municipality of Poing “is just a small cog”, as mayor Thomas Stark (independent) put it in the most recent municipal council meeting, the municipality will save energy in the public sector wherever possible.
For this purpose, the building depot, building management department, listed measures for reducing electricity and heat consumption, which manager Thomas Halbritter presented at the meeting.
Some of the measures had already been implemented by September 1st, others are still to be implemented - after consultation with the organizations, clubs, schools, daycare centers and adult education centers affected.
Poing: Visible signs of energy saving
Two of the visible signs that times have changed are the "Poing" art sculpture in the middle of the large roundabout at the OMV petrol station and the "Stonehenge" stone formation in the Bergfeldpark (between Zauber- and Seewinkel): both have been in use since January 1st. September no longer lit.
The municipality also turns off the lights in other places and buildings in the evening and at night (see box).
In municipal properties, older heating systems will in future be switched off from May to the end of September - with the exception of central hot water heating.
According to the catalog of measures, the heating system only has to be put back into operation if the outside temperature is less than twelve degrees for three days.
Furthermore, it was determined that the flow temperatures must not exceed the following maximum degrees: 70 degrees Celsius (low-temperature systems), 55 degrees (condensing boilers) and 45 degrees (underfloor heating).
(By the way: Everything from the region is now also available in our regular Ebersberg newsletter.)
It's dark here now
The municipality of Poing has now completely or partially switched off the light in these public buildings and places:
Pavilion sports center
• Change in switching times – from 10.30 p.m. to 5 a.m. (with twilight switch)
Anni Pickert School
• Schoolyard lighting off
• Façade lighting off from 9.30 p.m. (with twilight lighting)
• Lettering lighting off
Town Hall
• Floor spotlights off
Fire station
• Lettering lighting, main entrance: off
• Façade/parking lot lighting off from 10 p.m.
• Basic lighting off
Sudetenstrasse 1-3
• Floor spotlights: off
Construction depot
• Parking lot lighting off (summer time) or reduced to a minimum in winter time
• Central compressed air supply only during regular operating hours
Park&Ride building North S-Bahn station
• Lighting on open levels 8 and 9 off
Day-care center Fresiengasse 1
• Parking lot lights off in summer, reduced to the minimum in winter
Kita Kirchheimer Allee 19
• Adapt facade light east and west to the times of use
Daycare center Schulstrasse 31a
• Adapt outside staircase lighting to times of use
Art sculpture at roundabout
• Lights off
Bergfeldpark
• Floor spotlights Wayside cross next to chapel off
• Stonehenge stone formation lighting off
Bergfeld School
• Parking lot lights off from 10:30 p.m. to 5 a.m. (with twilight switch)
In "public non-residential buildings" (this is what the list says) "all electric boilers or instantaneous water heaters must be switched off" when it comes to hot water.
This applies, for example, to kitchens and/or toilets in the town hall, in the community center (except for the children's area) and at the cemetery.
In the triple gymnasium and in the changing room pavilion of the sports center, it is still possible to take a hot shower, City Hall Managing Director Muriel Brodbeck told our newspaper.
Both buildings are connected to the central hot water supply.
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Poing: Further measures planned from October
Another measure planned, among other things, is the decommissioning of the lighting and pipe heating on the toilet container at Bergfeldsee, announced building management manager Thomas Halbritter at the municipal council meeting.
In addition, in the municipal buildings (which include the elementary schools and day care centers as well as the sports center), air purifiers should be switched off when leaving the rooms, as should air conditioners where they are not absolutely necessary.
The municipality sees it as a "general political task and responsibility to make its contribution (to saving energy, ed.)", according to the administration's statement on the subject.
One measure Poing has already completed, said Mayor Stark: "The conversion of the street lighting is complete." A total of 1037 lights have been converted to LED.
According to Stark, this would save 80 tons of CO2 per year - previously it was 107 tons of CO2 emissions that were produced by the lights, now it is 25 tons.
Due to the switch, electricity consumption has fallen from 254,773 kilowatt hours/year to 59,703 kWh/a.
You can find more current news from the district of Ebersberg at Merkur.de/Ebersberg.