According to Anatoly Kozlenko, Director of Kyiv's Municipal Enterprise " Project Implementation Unit”, city has implemented a comprehensive energy efficiency investment programme in over 1,500 communally-owned buildings in the education, culture and health sectors, what has reduced heating consumption by close to 350,000 Gcal per year and provided energy cost savings worth one billion Hryvnia.
The entire budget for this programme runs to a total of USD 27 million. The city of Kyiv has financed 37 per cent of the costs, whilst the World Bank has financed 56 per cent and Sweden has contributed seven per cent of the programme’s entire costs. The money has been used for a number of purposes, including retrofits of individual heat substations with installation of water heaters and automatic control systems, installation of heat meters, radiator reflectors and new energy-efficient windows. Read more at http://www.nefco.org/. Kyiv Institutional Buildings Sector Energy Efficiency Program (KIBA) was initiated in 1995 by the State Committee of Ukraine for Energy Saving and Kyiv Municipality. Ukrainian NGO Agency for Rational Energy Use and Ecology (ARENA-ECO) in partnership with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and with support from the U.S. Department of Energy and Agency for International Development in 1996-1998 developed technical and financial assessments for the KIBA project, as well as developed and implemented together with partners the demonstration projects in four Kyiv schools, what provided a solid base for getting co-financing from World Bank and implementation of full scale project.. The Kiev Research and Design Institute for Residential and Civil Construction (KievZNIIEP) and ARENA-ECO also assisted in the preparation of energy audit procedures, typical designs for heat substations, and procedures for monitoring and verification of energy savings
As it follows from NEFCO's publicationand World Bank’s Implementation Completion and Results Report, project results are very impressive - costs of energy savings, over 1 billion Hryvnia (at least $50 million according to historical currency exchange rates), exceeded project investments of $27 million almost twice!
