The Parliament ratified an agreement with the EIB on a grant from the European Commission of 12.4 million euros for the project "Energy Efficiency in Moldova".
The grant agreement signed on September 13 provides for the allocation of a grant from the European Commission to our country for the energy restoration of public buildings within the framework of the mentioned project. The main beneficiaries of the project will be social institutions: republican, municipal and district hospitals, kindergartens and schools. The mentioned grant financial assistance will be provided in order to reduce the financial burden of potential beneficiaries of energy rehabilitation projects in public buildings, especially local public authorities. Earlier, for the implementation of the Energy Efficiency in Moldova project, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Investment Bank pledged to provide Moldova with loans of 30 million euros each. In addition, the European Commission's Neighborhood Investment Platform will provide Moldova with a technical assistance grant of 2.6 million euros, and another grant of 500 thousand euros will come from the Eastern Partnership Technical Assistance Trust Fund (EPTATF). Thus, the total budget of the project "Energy Efficiency in Moldova" is 75.5 million euros with an implementation period of 4 years (2022-2025). This will be the largest energy efficiency project in Moldova, which aims to introduce a national program to improve the energy efficiency of public buildings, implement energy efficiency projects in schools, kindergartens and hospitals, whose buildings are characterized by low energy efficiency due to old construction and a severe lack of investment in consolidation works and improve energy efficiency during their operation. The project will launch a national building energy rehabilitation program across the country, with a focus on social facilities. The list of final beneficiaries of the project will be established later, after the energy audit. Among the criteria for selecting institutions are specific energy consumption per square meter, energy saving potential, degree of use of the building, etc. It is planned that at the initial stage, an energy audit will be carried out in 9 hospitals to see their condition and determine the amount of investment. In particular, the Institute of Emergency Medicine, the Institute of Cardiology, the Institute of Oncology, the Institute of Mother and Child, the Republican Clinical Hospital, the Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery, the Republican Center for Medical Diagnostics, the Balti Clinical Hospital, and the Clinical Psychiatric Hospital in Codru will pass the energy audit at the first stage. At the second stage, the list of institutions that will pass the energy audit will be longer, and after the completion of the energy audit, the exact number of institutions whose energy efficiency will be improved within the framework of the mentioned project will be determined. Direct work within the framework of the project "Energy Efficiency in Moldova" on selected buildings and facilities is planned to begin early next year. //27.10.2022 — InfoMarket
