The National Center for Sustainable Energy will take over the Green House Program to make it a national one. To date, 219 energy-vulnerable households, including 74 family-type children’s homes, have enjoyed energy efficiency improvements under the program, the Ministry of Energy said.
Before the beneficiary households were selected, energy audits were carried out and, based on the resulting recommendations, energy efficiency improvement measures with the greatest impact on each individual household were decided. As a result, 11 solar collectors, 22 biomass boilers, 22 photovoltaic panels were installed, while 35 homes were thermally insulated, for a total of 90 interventions. Some households enjoyed a combination of energy efficiency solutions.
Photovoltaic panels were installed in another 145 households. These beneficiaries were selected from the Energy Vulnerability Information System based on several criteria, such as ownership status, high energy consumption (of 400-600 kWh a month) and high energy vulnerability. Priority was given to families with many children.
The Green House Program, funded by the European Union (EU) and implemented by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), promotes energy saving and energy efficiency practices and technologies, which brings benefits such as energy savings, while also cutting bill costs and greenhouse gas emissions.
