171117_SECAP of Greater Irbid Municipality_SET_rev2

- Residential Buildings;
- Tertiary Buildings;
- Public Lighting;
- Transportation: Private and Commercial;
- Water Supply for Gardens and Parks;
- Solid Waste Management;
- Local Electricity Production.
According to the data provided by the Local Authority, the analysis for the Greenhouse Gas Emissions shows that the
Residential, Tertiary and Transportation sectors represent the majority of emissions in the city. As a result, the actions
targeting those sectors would significantly affect the emissions’ reduction and at the same time support the energy bill
savings for the private and public sectors. In the below Chart the emissions per sector are presented according to the data
provided for year 2015.
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1% 12% Municipal
49%
38%
Tertiary
Residential
Public lighting
Transport
Actions and measures related to SECAP
Chart 1 Greenhouse gas emissions per sector
The SECAP section dedicated to the mitigation actions describes a range of initiatives/measures for each sector that the
city has already undertaken, as well as a set of planned priority actions which will help to attain a sustainable city by 2030.
The actions consist of both awareness raising activities for the public and different stakeholders, and of actions related to
energy consumption and energy production as provided below.
1. Municipal building and facilities
The actions set in this sector are summarized as follows:
‣ Evolving from traditional management into e-management
The institutional framework in the Greater Irbid Municipality needs a strong, fast, reliable and flexible IT system capable of
facilitating the work that could serve the local community’s interests. Hence, evolving from traditional management into
e-management- a priority action - contributes in automating the municipality and transferring all municipal and paperbased
information to electronic information, ensuring the necessary infrastructure to connect all municipal departments
with a single information network and exchange of information between different departments, and determining all
transactions between the citizen and municipal departments and converting them into electronic transactions.
The adopted actions in this area will save 885 MWh/a, and mitigate the emissions by 220 t CO2/a.
‣ Transforming the Main building of Greater Irbid Municipality into a Green Building
The main building’s energy consumption cost is responsible for about 36% of all municipal buildings’ consumption, thus
the building is imposing an enormous economic burden on the annual budget that reaches JOD 651,780 annually (920,000
USD).
A set of measures are undertaken and are summarized as follows:
- Transform the municipal building into an environmental landmark.
- Implement energy conservation measures.
- Install window shadings (Sun shade).
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