A park with photovoltaic panels with a capacity of 300 kW will be built in Feștelița village of Ștefan Vodă district. This way, the solar energy will be transformed into electricity that will be sold in order to collect additional revenues into the local budget. The initiative is financed by the European Union through the Covenant of Mayors East that was signed by the village, IPN reports.
In a debate organized by the Institute for European Policies and Reforms, mayor of Feștelița Nicolae Tudoreanu said the local public administration designed a plan of action that produces results owing to the sustainable energy project launched within the Eastern Partnership for the signatories of the Covenant. In partnership with the Moldova Social Innovation Fund, the local authorities applied to create a center of excellence by piloting energy efficient technologies and demonstrative renewable energy sources.
According to the mayor, it goes to intelligent street lighting and four biomass heating plants. “We already planted the energy poplar and willow on the land owned by the local public administration and will later cultivate own wood that will be used as fuel for heating,” he stated, noting the local authorities plan to set up solar collectors so as to heat the water supplied to the local kindergarten.
But the creation of a park with photovoltaic panels with a capacity of 300 kW is the most ambitious initiative. In several weeks, there will be held a tender contest to choose the contractor. They plan to put all the energy efficient technologies into operation in autumn.
Nicolae Tudoreanu said all the local buildings were erected at the end of the 1970s and it is known that the waste of energy resources in the Soviet period was disastrous. “There were piles of mine coal all the public buildings and everyone ignored the fact that the windows were broken and the radiators were heated with a large volume of heat. This was costly and the communities continue to incur costs,” he explained.
For another project, they attracted USD$ 50,000 that was used to thermally insulate the façade of the local school. A loan of over 2 million lei was raised for building the public lighting system within the second stage. Such projects turned out to be efficient. For example, in 2016 the local authorities thermally insulated the facade of the kindergarten and the heat bill decreased twice, while thermal comfort in the institutions increased almost twice.
The debate “Development of Energy Efficiency Projects: green pact for the Republic of Moldova?” was organized by the Institute for European Policies and Reforms (IPRE) with support from the Hanns Seidel Foundation.
