Sofia Municipality changes heating for 30% of households – Bulgaria

With the projects of the Life program and the OP Environment up to 3 years, we must move to a more environmentally friendly heating for about 30% of households. This is what the mayor of Sofia, Yordanka Fandakova, said at the end of the inspection of the implementation of a pilot project of installation of Filters in buildings heated with solid fuel in the BKS building of the Krasna Polyana region, reported the FOCUS news agency.

The mayor of Sofia explained that the BSC is the unit responsible for cleanliness and mowing in the Krasna Polyana region.

"In fact, we have launched and demonstrated the pilot project we are building with the company that donated 10 filters to the Sofia Municipality, two of them are located here, the other eight are in buildings. Private, on the proposal of the district mayor.The objective of the pilot project is to measure and see the effect of these filters.There are serious investments for them.About 3500 BGN is the value of each. Obviously, not all households can afford such a filter, but the effect is visible.On last year, only one filter of this type was measured and showed a reduction of 75 to 80 % of solid fuel heating emissions.The effect is obvious, the question is how to use it.Families who can afford it and have the feeling of purity of the air can always The problem is for other families.We know that in winter, the pr The main source of air pollution is heating with solid fuel, poor quality coal, and wet wood. What do we do? With the support of the government and the EC, we conducted a survey: around 55,000 households in Sofia are heated with solid fuel. They have a totally different social status, "she said, explaining that there are socially disadvantaged families and that some people can afford to invest.

According to her, the municipality of Sofia focuses on households that do not have enough opportunities to invest in replacing heating with a greener heating. "We have developed two projects, with one of them we have applied directly to the EC, and as part of the Life program, we are participating with several other large municipalities in Bulgaria.

Its total value exceeds 16.6 million euros. This includes all municipalities. This will allow us, as a first step, to support 140 households by supporting the purchase and replacement of environmentally friendly alternative fuels, "Fandakova said. gasification, district heating, electricity and pellet stoves.

"You know that we have another pilot project that we should be reporting this year with the supply of 30 pellet stoves, and we are currently preparing the big project that we will be asking for under the" Environment "OP, which will increase the number of pellet stoves. help to the household, "said the mayor of Sofia.

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