Moldova: Renewable energy used to heat school in Mosana thanks to EU support

A school in Mosana, Republic of Moldova is now able to use a new, modern biomass boiler that provides heat from renewable sources at fair prices. The equipment has been installed with EU support through the Energy and Biomass Project, which is implemented by the United Nations Development Programme as part of the EU4Energy Initiative.

As a result, 150 children and their teachers will benefit from warmer classrooms in the winter and the school will be able to save money on its heating bills. The new heating system ensures all the rooms in the school, which amount to about 1,100 square metres, maintain a constant temperature.

The students’ parents are also pleased with the new conditions. “The change was expected by all. We are glad that from now on, lessons will be held in well-heated classrooms, and students and teachers will no longer endure the cold,” says parent Svetlana Pileac.

The school in Mosana is one of 265 kindergartens, schools and health centres in the country to have been connected to biomass heating systems with the support of the European Union.

The Energy and Biomass Project, phase two, is carried out in 2015–2018, with a total budget of 9.41 million EUR provided by the European Union and is implemented by the United Nations Development Programme. It continues the first phase of the project (2011–2014), with a total budget of 14.56 million EUR, offered by the European Union (14 million EUR) and UNDP (560,000 EUR). The national partner of the Energy and Biomass Project is the Ministry of Economy and Infrastructure.

Original source: EU Neighbours
Published on 18 October 2018