‘Bottom Up to Kyoto’ (BUtK) is a pilot project that aims to enable the municipalities across Europe to make the switch to efficient street lighting systems. In 36 months, 5 municipalities in the European Union will develop new tools to make it possible. ‘BUtK’ intends to be a model in the street lighting field that might be of use for all municipalities in Europe, and to prove that the switch to efficient lighting systems is possible and beneficial.

Particularly, ‘BUtK’ will:

• Remove barriers to uptake of energy efficient lighting systems.
• Provide energy and cost savings.
• Help the Member States to meet the Kyoto targets.

The European Lamp Manufacturers (ELC), the European Union of Electrical Wholesalers (EUEW) and the European Association of Electrical Contractors (AIE), together with an Energy Performance contractor, ‘Berliner Energieagentur GmbH’, will assist these municipalities (Cluj, Raciechowice, Riga, Slovenska-Bistrica and Voru) and help them to achieve significant energy savings at a local level – bottom up!

For more information visit http://butk.elcfed.org.

Or read the newsletter of the BUtK.