Republic of Moldova

Energy and Biomass project participated in a public discussion with the students from the energetics faculty, during the UN week

19 October 2011, Chisinau –Students from the Energetics Faculty of the Technical University participated in a public discussion with the representatives of the Energy and Biomass Project organized during the UN Week.

Students were informed about the impact of the UN’s work in the Republic of Moldova, the benefits for the ordinary people as a result of projects implemented and funded by UN, as well as about the history of the UN and its ongoing activities. Representatives of the Energy and Biomass Project told young people about their role and the need to actively participate in community life and decision-making process.

The future energeticians have also listened to a presentation by the Energy and Biomass Project, the largest project on the renewable energy market in the Republic of Moldova. They learned about the project’s components, goal, objectives, and results to be achieved by 2014: at least 130 kindergartens, schools, health centers, and other rural public institutions and over 500 households to be heated with locally produced biomass-based energy, especially from wheat straw and other cereal waste.

“I really think that the renewable energy market should be developed in the Republic of Moldova. We have only to win from this situation: we will increase our energy security, produce fuel from local sources, save money for the consumed energy, and to crown it all, we will also protect the environment”, said Constantin Leahu, student at the Energetics Faculty under the Technical University.

The students were interested in the selection criteria for communities to get connected to the alternative energy sources, the development of the local market of solid fuel production from biomass (briquettes, pellets), as well as in the possibility to collaborate within the Energy and Biomass Project.

Moldova Energy and Biomass is a four-year project to be implemented during 2011-2014. The total project budget accounts for 14,56 million Euro, granted by the European Union (14 million Euro) and UNDP Moldova (560.000 Euro).

For more information:  
Ina Prisacaru-Zglavuta, Communication and Media Officer, Energy and Biomass Project, Tel: (+373 69)141006, ina.zglavuta@undp.org