• Start year: 2011
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: In operation

A 1.1 kW solar panel has been installed in a municipal service
building to promote renewable energy resources use
and test solar energy efficiency in the city. Measurement
points are identified to determine city wind energy suitability.
If wind-power is deemed appropriate for the city, turbines
will be installed to provide energy production.

• Start year: 2005
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: In operation

Waste reduction efforts are currently underway to protect
natural resources. Each kind of waste—packaging waste,
vegetable waste, batteries and medical waste, for example—
is collected from houses separately. Efforts also include
collecting discarded tires whose carbon impact is
reduced through disposal at processing plants. Additionally,
the Nevsehir wastewater treatment plant has become
operational and a solid waste landfill is under construction,
to be completed by the end of 2012.

• Start year: 2008
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: In operation

Since 2010, insulation at new buildings is obligatory. Most
service buildings have started using natural gas. Natural gas
systems are installed in newly-opened and future buildings,
minimizing fossil-fuel consumption. The aim of this study is
to reduce fossil fuel consumption. There have been energy
savings of 40% in the transition from coal to natural gas
and 75% in the transition from fuel oil to natural gas. Natural
gas now reaches 80% of the city.

• Start year: 2009
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: In operation

All existing traffic lights in Nevsehir have migrated to LED
systems. A five-intersection budget was created for the city
by municipal authorities; other lights were installed by the
General Directorate of Highways and subsequently handed
over to municipal authorities. All maintenance and other
costs reside with the municipality. Savings reach approximately
75% when lamp power consumption and burnt-out
bulb replacement are considered; the system includes all future
street lighting.

• Start year: 2008
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: Completed

Energy-saving lamps are used in all service buildings. 2000
incandescent bulbs have been exchanged for energy-saving
lamps to ensure energy efficiency among targeted municipal
employees.

• Start year: 2010
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: In operation

Grass has been removed in city refuges and parks; planting
work is underway. To date, some 17,600 m of mains
have been installed to transition to a drip irrigation method
chosen to decrease the amount of fuel oil consumed by irrigation
trucks as well as subsequent water loss. Studies are
underway to transition to this system in all central city areas
as well as in the newly rebuilt parks.