EU-UNDP project helps overcome energy crisis in Moldova
The European Union and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have helped to overcome the energy crisis, and to create support mechanisms for energy vulnerable households and programmes to reduce domestic energy consumption.
These are the main results of the ‘Addressing the impacts of the energy crisis in the Republic of Moldova’ programme, funded by the European Union and implemented by UNDP from 2022-2024, with a total budget of €13 million. The results were presented on 1 August in Chișinău.
The programme also supported reform of institutions in the sector and created the premises for the liberalisation and integration of Moldova’s energy market into the European market.
In addition, the programme created the Energy Vulnerability Reduction Fund and helped to mobilise resources for it. As a result, more than 800,000 families received compensation for their energy bills in the years 2022-2024, when international energy prices reached historic highs.
With the support of the Programme, three strategic documents: the National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan, the sectoral Strategy for the renovation of the national housing stock for 2025-2030, and the National programme on strengthening and developing the national solid biofuels sector in the long term, as well as 34 legislative acts, were developed.
With European Union funding, five district hospitals in Florești, Nisporeni, Ștefan Vodă, Cahul and Călărași were equipped with photovoltaic panels with a total capacity of 600 kW.
The programme also implemented a number of pilot projects that contributed to reducing energy consumption in households. These will now be taken up by the National Centre for Sustainable Energy (NCSE) and scaled up nationwide. They include the ‘Green Home’ programme, through which 219 energy-vulnerable households benefited from energy efficiency measures. Under the ‘Rabla for household appliances’ programme, 31,838 households received vouchers for LED bulbs and 7,246 households replaced their old household equipment.
Also, in four blocks of flats in Chișinău, individual thermal points were installed and heat distribution systems were changed to horizontal ones.
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