Moh’d Ash Shazli, chief of electricity division at the Asir Mayoralty, said that the mayoralty has put in place a strategy to light Asir’s parks using solar energy.
“We began a pilot project in As-Soudah Park, and also in Prince Sultan Park in Far’a in Asir with installation costs of about SR4 million,” he said.
He added that work is under way to use solar energy for the lighting of the remaining parks in Asir, in addition to the city’s squares and downtown area.
He also said that Asir Mayor Ibrahim Al Khaleel directed that solar energy be used in order to save cost and effort, in addition to the expenses usually incurred in the maintenance and installation of electric posts and cables. “We should also use alternative energy,” he said.
All the municipalities in the area have been directed to try to use solar energy and make optimum use of the projects, due to the low cost and high savings that result from the use of alternative energy sources. Mansour Al-Qahtani, director general of the southern province electricity department said that, “The department supports the Asir Mayoralty and municipalities in the use of solar energy to light the streets.”
He added that, “The use of all forms of alternative energy in the daily life of the people offer good savings in the use of energy. Many municipalities tend now to use solar energy in lighting the streets.
I would like to point out that our department had conducted a pilot project in cooperation with Saudi Aramco in Fursan Island to generate power from solar energy. That project has gone online, and it now generates 500 kilowatts of electricity daily.”
Asir lights its parks with solar power
