Climate Change in Eastern Europe

CLIMATE CHANGE IN EASTERN EUROPE

Moldova

The Energy Strategy of the Republic of Moldova up to 2020 says that renewable sources should eventually provide 20% of total energy needs. Currently renewable energy provides around 3-4% with no significant improvement since the strategy was adopted in 2007. However, Moldova has good experience of implementing projects devoted to the use of the renewable energy. In 2006-2007, six rural schools were equipped with boilers that use straw, while another project used biogas produced from manure for heating and electricity at a number of farms. These are isolated examples, but recently the similar programmes have begun under the auspices of international organizations including the World Bank and the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development. Since 2010 Moldova has been a member of the Energy Community Treaty of the EU, which aims to integrate European legislation and standards in the sectors of energy production, transmission and consumption, energy efficiency and development of renewable energy. Moldova has also conducted negotiations to join the energy distribution system of the EU.

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