{"id":13228,"date":"2018-08-26T14:53:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T10:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=13228"},"modified":"2018-08-26T14:53:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T10:53:15","slug":"rta-makes-12-6-gigawatt-hour-electric-power-savings-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/rta-makes-12-6-gigawatt-hour-electric-power-savings-in-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"RTA Makes 12.6 Gigawatt-Hour Electric Power Savings In 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai\u2019s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) announced that it had made electric power saving as much as 12.6 Gigawatt-Hour in 2017, in addition to reducing carbon emissions by 5,430 tons. Making such savings contributes to realising RTA\u2019s strategic objective of nurturing a sustainable environment through saving power consumption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA plan has been endorsed to replace the conventional street-lighting units of HID type by LED lights, following savings amounting to 50% resulting from Traffic and Roads Agency\u2019s pilot project of replacing HID by LED units in several areas of Dubai\u201d, said Eng. Maitha bin Adai, CEO of RTA\u2019s Traffic &amp; Roads Agency.<\/p>\n<p>RTA is committed to realising the vision of Dubai Government for sustainable development through introducing power-saving plans. The replacement of HID lights by LED lights is part of the its power-saving initiatives, which include the partial switching off of lights in residential areas and revising the street-lighting hours while taking into consideration the security and safety of road users.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe resultant power savings is expected to reach 22 Gigawatt-Hour in 2018, i.e. almost double of that achieved in 2017. It is equally important to promote the positive environmental practices as it leads to a substantial change in environmental, economic and social attitudes,\u201d concluded Maitha.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13229\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/H-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"139\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-13230\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/H1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"113\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai\u2019s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) announced that it had made electric power saving as much as 12.6 Gigawatt-Hour in 2017, in addition to reducing carbon emissions by 5,430 tons. Making such savings contributes to realising RTA\u2019s strategic objective of nurturing a sustainable environment through saving power consumption. \u201cA plan has been endorsed to replace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13232,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13228\/revisions\/13232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}