Heating expenditures in Chisinau can be reduced by 60%

December 23, 2009

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Centralized heating in the Moldovan capital city can be reduced by 60% from the current breathtaking figure of some 650 million lei paid every winter season, experts from the Moldovan Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Resources (CEERR) said.

CEERR Programs Coordinator Alexander Melenciuc told a news conference in Infotag today that the main way to reducing the expenses is through improving the decades-existing system of centralized heating, which step could let save 324 million lei a year.

In his words, the most money-saving method of organizing the heating is through building the so-called individual heating plants (IHPs) in every apartment house in the city. Such flexible, efficient facilities bring the heating supply in every apartment house fairly quickly, for dwellers' representatives themselves switch on or off the heating system depending on the air temperature in the city. Depending on the plants' capacity, the cost of the IHP hardware and installation ranges between 6 and 10 thousand euros.

CEERR has already helped to install such IHPs at several Chisinau schools, and the natural gas consumption there dropped by 15-25%. The Center experts say the project implementation cost pays back within 3 years.

CEERR Chairman Ruslan Surujiu said that in order to modernize the heating system in the city by means of such plants, it is necessary to primarily amend the relevant legislation so as to legitimize the existence of dwellers' organizations that will be taking decisions on rebuilding the existing old heating facilities in their multistory apartment houses.

Established in 2007, the Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Resources is a non-governmental organization uniting energy experts and working to help improve the national energy sector's efficiency and natural resources using.

Infotag news agency