Hennadii Zubko commissions the State Agency for Energy Efficiency to develop new mechanisms to encourage a reduction in gas consumption
Vice Prime Minister,
Minister of Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities Hennadii Zubko has instructed the
State Agency for Energy Saving and Energy Efficiency to promptly complete the process of
preparation and approval and submit for consideration necessary bills and draft
decrees of the Government, aimed at creating favourable conditions for the
reduction of natural gas consumption by the population and budget-funded
institutions.
In particular, it
concerns the laws that regulate the use of an ESCO mechanism (retrofitting of
buildings of budget-funded organizations - schools, kindergartens, hospitals),
as well as a draft law on improving energy efficiency of buildings.
“Apart from earlier
introduced mechanisms which afford the people to replace gas boilers and those
encouraging heat generating enterprises to shift gears to alternative kinds of
fuel, we have to suggest other mechanisms as well. It is known that thermo
modernization of a building is costly, and an association of co-owners of multi-storey
building or a budget-funded organization could hardly afford a complex thermal
insulation. The task for the State Agency for Energy Saving and Energy
Efficiency is to offer a mechanism of drawing investments and cheap loans to
conduct modernization and respectively reduce consumption of energy resources,”
Hennadii Zubko stressed.
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The Vice Prime
Minister also focused attention on the fact that each legal act, which is
being drafted to adopt in the energy saving and energy efficiency sector,
should take into account the interests of the population - co-owners of
apartment houses, property owners, as well as the interests of budget-funded organizations. |