Malaga businesses turn off their shop windows due to the entry into force of the energy saving plan – Málaga Hoy

The Energy Saving Plan is already underway, it came into force at 00:00 this Wednesday. Businesses and public buildings are now forced to turn off their shop windows throughout the night to save energy. The question is: Have they done it from the beginning? It’s 00:00 and in Calle Larios you can see how there are shops on every corner. Tourists stroll through this emblematic street in the city where some shop windows are on and others are completely off, complying with the new regulations. The road has not lost its essence, but it has lost part of its illumination. What used to be illuminated Massimo Dutti shop windows is now a dark store waiting to open to have light inside again. In front of the establishment, Rituals has kept the products in its windows illuminated with small spotlights so that passing tourists stop to observe. There are those who have even been looking at the glass for a while. Walking down the street you can see how Parfois has followed the example of Rituals and keeps its windows lit. Instead, inside Mango and Mango Man there is not a single light, they are completely off. Just like the Primor shops that are located on Calle Larios. Its strong white lights so characteristic right now do not illuminate. Springfield joins the list and the lighting it has is what it receives from the establishments surrounding the store. Something curious and noteworthy is what happens with the Oysho store. The premises have both the lights inside and the shop windows completely off, although a giant screen that plays a promotional video on a loop stands out. Establishments completely dark, others with only the logo on and the window off, others with small spotlights illuminating their products and others completely on. In this way, all the stores that are on Calle Larios could be divided. Bimba y Lola and Etam Paris are without power, as is Adolfo Domínguez, but the latter has left the store’s logo on. Right in front, Pull and Bear complies with the Decree Law, unlike the three-story Stradivarius store in Plaza de la Constitución, whose focus can be seen from the beginning of the street. A few meters from Calle Larios, some of the monuments, exempt from the blackout, continue to illuminate the city. The spotlights of the Cathedral of Malaga remain fully on and the City Council is in charge of deciding if it will finally stop lighting the Manquita at night from now on. In this sense, the mayor of Malaga, Francisco de la Torre, has assured that the decision to turn off the emblematic buildings is yet to be determined: “We will talk about it, but the cost of the monuments that do not have LEDs is very low, but we can reduce some hours, yes”. When walking along the Paseo del Parque you can see the Malaga City Hall, the city’s municipal building at midnight was fully illuminated by several blue spotlights. Now the government team must decide whether to turn off the building after 10:00 p.m. Likewise, De la Torre has assured that this is the only municipal building in the city and “it is not usually lit, therefore consumption is very low”. He has also added that the City Council will try to “collaborate, but with logic” and has remarked that consumption is very low and both the monuments and the Casona del Parque are “signs of identity of the city”.