Chernivtsi: Seminar on energy efficiency held in city Council
the project of Ukrainian-German cooperation GIZ "energy Efficiency in communities" on January 13, the city Council held a workshop on the activities of the ESCO, the financial model, the experience of European countries and implementation of projects on energy efficient rehabilitation of buildings of educational institutions. Speakers of the event were the Deputy project Director GIZ Ima Khrenova-Simkin, consultant of GIZ project Bostan Crain and Dmitry Marusich, founder of the WEEK ltd. (Latvia) Eric Berman, representatives of the consortium headed by Zhytomyr city Council. Participation the seminar was attended by deputies of city Council, representatives of public institutions and communal enterprises, state-owned banks, condominiums, housing cooperatives and Executive bodies of city Council. The Deputy of the mayor concerning activity of Executive bodies of the city Council Maria porchuk, opening the event, noted the importance of cooperation of the consortium with the project of Ukrainian-German cooperation GIZ "energy Efficiency in communities". "It is in this framework, important steps were taken towards the preparation of an important town for the major energy-saving projects, prepared a Baseline emission inventory and approved the action Plan for sustainable energy development, defining specific measures to save energy time and certain functions, implemented pilot projects “Capital repair of street lighting with use of innovative energy efficiency measures renewable energy (solar) m. Chernivtsi” and “reconstruction of the hot water system DOE No. 41, vul. Poletaeva,19, m. Chernivtsi by the installation of vacuum solar collectors”, school campaign to implement energy efficiency in Chernivtsi", – continued Maria porchuk. Deputy project Director GIZ Ima Khrenova-Simkin welcomed the participants, noting the importance and necessity of holding such seminars and handed over to the winning schools, the school of the company energy efficiency four meter for measuring illuminance. "Students will now be able to experiment and monitor in different seasons and under different weather conditions, will provide an opportunity to make informed decisions regarding the need to disable or decrease of illumination of lighting equipment", – said Ima Khrenova-Simkin. Great interest aroused the presentation of the consultant of the project of the GIZ Bostana Krincha the financial model ESCO, the possibility of using the ESCO mechanism as a tool to reduce energy dependence, the preservation of the housing stock and founder's WEEK ltd. (Latvia) Eric Berman on the activities of ESCO in Latvia. The seminar also presented the experience of M. Zhitomir on the implementation of projects on energy efficient rehabilitation of buildings of educational institutions" in cooperation with NEFCO. This was reported in the Chernivtsi city CouncilÏåðåâåäåíî ñåðâèñîì "ßíäåêñ.Ïåðåâîä÷èê": translate.yandex.ru.
Source: http://uzinform.com.ua/
