The World Bank will support the Government of Moldova in increasing energy security and reducing carbon dioxide emissions within the framework of 2 investment projects in the heating sector with a total value of 153 million euros.
As reported by the Ministry of Energy, this was stated by Roger Coma Cunill, a senior energy specialist at the World Bank. According to him, also as part of this assistance, will be developed a Roadmap for sustainable heat supply in Moldova, which will contain 3 scenarios for the transition to clean energy by 2050. This will include building renovation rates, funding requirements, investment, impact and institutional support. The Roadmap will be consistent with the national Energy Strategy and the National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan. As noted in the Ministry of Energy, at the moment, with a share of 50.2% of final energy consumption, the residential sector is the largest consumer of energy in Moldova, followed by the transport sector - 26.4%, industry - 8.8%, trade and utilities - 9.8%, agriculture – 4.8%. In the residential sector, 64.4% of households are heated with stoves and wood, 18.3% are connected to centralized heating systems, and 16.5% are connected to autonomous systems using gas, electricity, wood or coal. These data are contained in the “Analysis of the current space heating situation in Moldova”, a study that will form the basis of the Sustainable Heating Roadmap, developed with the support of the World Bank within the framework of the project “National Sustainable Heating Potential Assessment and Roadmap for Sustainable Heating”. The presented document includes information on heat demand by sector and fuel type, heating infrastructure, building stock, current policies and programs, heat demand and fuel consumption forecasts, existing barriers and institutional frameworks in this area. Thus, in Moldova there are 1.3 million housing units (574 thousand in urban areas and 751 thousand in rural areas) with a total area of 90.5 million square meters. More than 70% of buildings in Moldova were built between 1951 and 1990, 70.6% are private houses, 43% of houses are built from clay/adobe, 27.6% from brick/stone, 19.8% - from monolith/cement, 8.8% - from fortan. In 2021, Termoelectrica supplied heat to 7.9 million square meters of houses, the consumption of which was 824 MWh/year, or an average of 104 kWh/sq.m per year. For private homes, the average annual energy consumption per square meter is 126 kWh. It should be noted that 3,700 apartments with horizontal heat distribution systems have an average consumption of only 59.3 kWh per sq. m. per year.// 20.02.2024 — InfoMarket
