Work has also been done with managers on other measures to adopt in the medium term, all geared towards the same goal: greater efficiency, a reduction in energy spending and moves to make municipal sports centres more sustainable.

Notable measures include the rollout of a plan to install solar panelling at various municipal sports centres. Work is planned at eleven centres, with the overall installation of 12,920 m2 of solar panelling as part of the MES Barcelona programme, with a power potential of 1.55 MWp, equivalent to the consumption of some 2,000 homes. This will enable the centres to be less dependent on the conventional power grid and fluctuations in energy prices.

Another project is a series of proposals for the present and the future to develop good energy efficiency practices in the use of municipal sports facilities. Promoted by the Barcelona Institute for Sports and the managers at the facilities, this strategy seeks to cut energy expenditure at sports centres through their management and running and other actions linked to improvements to technical installations, building shells, energy productions systems etc.

These proposals also include plans to involve sports centre users through awareness and dissemination initiatives, seeking to get them on board in the struggle against the climate emergency and the energy crisis.

All these measures were presented and discussed in a meeting with municipal sports centre managers under the slogan “Driving energy sustainability for sports centres”.