To meet the ongoing energy crisis, the European Union has developed a toolbox to address the supply and demand side of energy resilience. Regarding the latter, policy instruments and actions aim exclusively at households and businesses’ energy consumption (i.e. indoor lighting), leaving aside any consideration for outdoor lighting, especially municipal street lighting which critically accounts for overall energy consumption. Thus, we propose that street lighting conservation should be regarded as an additional to the existing demand-side policy goal. Furthermore, building on the current empirical evidence and conceptual support of the effectiveness of nudges to economise on electricity consumption, we suggest that a default nudge in the form of “automatic enrolment” in a scheme of a scheduled rotate street lightning power interruptions, with an opt-out choice, could be regarded as an additional policy instrument capable of mitigating even further the effects of the energy crisis.

为了应对当前的能源危机，欧盟开发了一个工具箱来解决能源弹性的供需方面问题。对于后者，政策工具和行动专门针对家庭和企业的能源消耗（即室内照明），而没有考虑室外照明，特别是在总体能源消耗中占重要地位的市政街道照明。因此，我们建议将街道照明保护视为现有需求侧政策目标的补充。此外，基于当前的经验证据和概念支持，推动节能措施的有效性，我们建议在计划轮流街道闪电断电计划中以“自动注册”的形式默认推动，