The Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce of Spain emphasized that it will force the Energy Services Companies within the Social Dialogue, to reduce the consumption of energy in the country resulting in economic and environmental benefit. According to the Spanish government’s opinion, the Energy Service Companies will indeed be a source of employment in the sector of business most damaged by the present situation (the construction business, for which its legal security will be guaranteed, facilitating its financing and promoting its hiring on the part of the General Administration of the state. The Energy Service Companies will offer applicable plans of energy making savings easier for their clients. Later, they will receive part of the profits that the mentioned saving has generated. Basically, an Energy Service Company is dedicated to design, finance and to carry out measures of energy saving for its clients, homes, public companies and institutions. Among the possible saving measures in energy consumption are the substitution of diesel boilers for heating, the incorporation of systems of switching off lights by detection of human presence in offices or rooms, substitution of the traditional incandescent light bulbs by light bulbs of low consumption, improvement of insulation in houses and buildings to offset heat and the cold.
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