Pontevedra, 9 September 2026 – At the start of the 2026/27 school year, the Xunta de Galicia at the Escola de Educación Infantil Crespo Rivas in Pontevedra has had its indoor lighting renewed. The Regional Government’s delegate in Pontevedra, Pablo Fernández, visited the preschool on Tuesday and heard about the start of the new school year and the completed works. According to the Regional Government, the existing lights were replaced with a more energy-efficient system.
The Xunta de Galicia has allocated around €50,000for the measure. It is part of a regional programme to maintain, modernise and improve educational infrastructure. The Regional Government’s statement did not give technical details of the components installed or the expected electricity savings. The lighting renewal is intended to reduce the facility’s energy consumption and improve the learning environment.
The visit coincided with the general start of the school year in Galicia . According to the Xunta de Galicia, nearly 300,000 pupils are returning to educational establishments across the autonomous community this week. For the city of Pontevedra, the Regional Government puts the figure at nearly 12,000 pupils returning to class for the new school year. During his visit, Fernández emphasised that more staff were being assigned to schools despite a demographically driven fall in pupil numbers. He said that an additional 150 specialist inclusion teachers had been deployed for the first day of school.
The work at Crespo Rivas is a local example of ongoing investment in existing facilities. The Xunta de Galicia regularly schedules such measures to coincide with the start of lessons, so that construction work overlaps with as little teaching time as possible. The focus is on energy efficiency, accessibility and safety-related upgrades.
In Pontevedra, the Escola de Educación Infantil Crespo Rivas serves as a preschool for young children. The lighting renewal is one of a series of smaller improvements at schools in the province that the Regional Government says are being carried out progressively. No specific timetables for further projects in the city of Pontevedra or its surrounding area were announced during the visit.
Editor: Mira Cadena (Article created with AI assistance).