The businesses have begun to apply this Wednesday night the energy saving decree that forces them to turn off the lights in the shop windows at ten at night.
And some already do it directly when they close the store at eight in the evening. It is the case of the Versace store on Paseo de Gracia of Barcelona, which has not yet scheduled the blackout and the workers who finish the day have to close all lights manually.
Others like the Tous jewelry wave gucci store they already prepared last week for schedule the blackout in advance of the effective date of the decree. Even so, the follow-up is irregular, since many businesses have not turned off the lights well after ten at night.
Energy saving measures
The new regulation to save energy promoted by the Spanish government, and which has as its star measure limiting the temperature to 27 degrees in summer and 19 degrees in winter, it also forces businesses to turn off the lights in their shop windows at 10:00 p.m.
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The resolution also applies to lighting of public buildings that are unoccupied but instead, does not oblige monuments like the Sagrada Familia to turn off the lights that illuminate it. In this case, it will be the employer that manages it who will decide what to do with the lighting.
This decree also obliges public buildings to improve your energy efficiencyeither with rehabilitation works, replacing lighting or installing self-consumption systems.