Gymnasium from north Moldova district connected to biomass heating with EU's support

Chisinau, 16 October /MOLDPRES/ - A gymnasium from the Mosana village, northern Donduseni district, has given up the old heating system and is using a modern station based on biomass starting this autumn. The new environment-friendly technologies have been set with the support of the European Union, within the Energy and Biomass project, implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).    

The school’s building was constructed back in 1960s and the heating system had an advanced extent of wear. Boilers were going wrong often, spare parts were more and more often difficult to find. In the cold season, the air temperature in classrooms was not higher than +17 Celsius degrees and it was even colder in halls. And this in conditions when the institution was monthly spending about 20,000 lei for wood and coal, according to UNDP sources.    

„We had a yearly budget deficit of about 200,000 lei. A good deal of these expenses represented excessively large sums we were paying for heating,” the headmaster of the gymnasium from Mosana, Larisa Traci, said.    

The change of the heating system was the first task on a list of priorities of the school’s administration. The solution came from the European Union, through a programme of grants for the construction and setting of thermal stations with burning biomass fuel. “I wanted such a project for our school. I learned, from discussions with other school headmasters, about how efficient the biomass boilers are and I hoped that we could bring this project to our settlement as well,” Larisa Traci noted.  

The gymnasium from Mosana is one of the 265 kindergartens, schools, health centres connected to heating systems on biomass with the support of the European Union within the Energy and Biomass programme. EU invested about 53,000 euros for this institution.

(Reporter L. Grubii, editor M. Jantovan)