UNDP together with municipal authorities opens a new boiler plant for Rivne Humanitarian Gymnasia

23 July 2008. Rivne, Ukraine - UNDP Resident Representatives a.i. Ms. Joanna Kazana-Wisniowiecka together with the representatives of Rivne municipality participated in the Opening ceremony of Boiler plant for Rivne Humanitarian Gymnasia, constructed under financial support of UNDP within the full-scale energy efficiency project, which is being implemented in Rivne since 2003.

Technical decision applied during the boiler plant design and construction is unique for Rivne municipal heat supply, this is the pilot installation for heat supply problems solving in the region. The newly opened boiler plant will supply heat and hot water to the Humanitarian Gymnasia complex, Swimming Pool and neighboring residential houses.

Rivne is the pilot city for energy saving and energy efficiency projects implementation as long as all such UNDP initiatives were met with approval and support from Rivne authorities. That is why a number of energy saving projects were implemented at Rivne communal/municipal sites under support of both UNDP and city budget.

“The project implemented by UNDP and local partners in Rivne focuses on developing and sharing solutions to the important challenges we face on various levels”, – points out Oleksiy Paschenko, UNDP Ukraine Programme coordinator on energy and energy efficiency, Rivne project manager, –„ starting from climate change mitigation through reduction in fossil fuel consumption, to solving local technical problems (replacement of obsolete inefficient equipment) and economical issues (budgetary funds saving due to the efficient utilization of energy resources). Moreover, significant social effect is achieved owing to the established quality heat and hot water supply services, which still remains a typical problem for Rivne as well as the majority of small scale cities in Ukraine”.  

The global environmental goal to be achieved by the full-size energy efficiency project in Rivne is to contribute to greenhouse gas emissions mitigation through significant reduction in fossil fuel consumption. These improvements will result from effective operation of the established “Municipal energy service company in Rivne” aimed to design and implement all necessary energy efficient measures in the municipal buildings through energy performance contracts or other applicable financial scenario, at once reducing the facilities' energy, operation and maintenance costs and contributing to environmental protection.

According to the words of Ms. Svitlana Bogatyrchuk-Kyvko, Rivne Deputy Mayor in social and humanitarian issues, owing to this project not only selected educational institution received quality heat supply, but the Rivne city as a whole got significant saving of budget funds and effectual mechanism for similar projects implementation at other educational institutions: “The projects, implemented under the grant support of UNDP, show us a viable example how to receive high-quality services and at the same time save money. To my mind, such projects will be priority for Rivne Municipality for the next couple of years, since even prior calculations prove that schools and kindergartens of Rivne require dozens of millions hryvnas for heat supply system rehabilitation”.

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“Removing Barriers to Greenhouse Gas Emissions Mitigation through Energy Efficiency in the District Heating System” project was approved by GEF Council in January 2002 and splitted into 2 phases. Phase 1 (2002-2005) consisted of the establishment of a municipal energy service company (ESCO) and implementation of energy efficiency demonstration programme at the selected communal supply-side entities. Project’s Phase 2 (2006-2009), which was conditional upon successful completion of Phase 1, includes implementation of a Rivne city-wide energy efficiency investment programme and wider replication activities.