City of Murcia

Near the Mediterranean cost, Murcia is the seventh largest city in Spain with near 445.000 inhabitants and has a strong tourism sector. Its population is widely scattered among 55 urban centers, causing about one million daily trips. The municipality of Murcia has an extension of 882km2 and in fact is one of the largest in Spain. It also has a high level of solar radiation, 5 kwh/m2/day (great potential for solar renewable energy).

The Murcia city council is working intensively to improve the mobility of its city, as proof we want to highlight that we’ve been recognized four consecutive years among the top ten cities in the European mobility Week Awards. In addition to mobility, Murcia has also been working hard on energy savings programs, like Green Homes and developing other high-impact European programs such as: PROSTO, MOBISEC, SURE, PRO-EE, SMARTSPACES, etc..

The city of Murcia joined the Covenant of Mayors in February 2009, since then, has strengthened its commitment to reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases every year, keeping itself in mid-2013 on the right track to achieve reduction targets in energy consumption, CO2 emissions and use of renewable energy established in the Covenant of Mayors for 2020.

Murcia is a member of Eurocities, during the years in which it chair the group, it launched dozens of initiatives in the field of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and sustainability. Apart from that, Murcia also heads the Green Digital Charter initiative, with the aim of promoting cooperation among members of such network, towards a new society that profits from the benefits that current technologies offer us towards a better quality of life. In relation to this fact, at national level speaking, Murcia is leading the Energy group in RECI, Spanish network of intelligent cities.