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Energy projects in Kaunas
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In order to acquire new up-to-date experience in the energy
sector and to transfer the experience Kaunas City participates
in many international projects.
 In
2005, the project "Reduction of Experience Differences
of Energy Sector Management at the City Level in Kaliningrad
oblast, Lithuania and Italy" according to the TACIS
CBC programme. The aim was to contribute to the initiatives
carried out by the European Union reducing air pollution
due to fuel burning, using energy in Baltic cities more
effectively. The partners of the project were Kaliningrad
City, Kaunas and Modern Energy Agency (Italy).
The feasibility study for the implementation
of energy effectiveness (saving) in Kaliningrad was prepared
and submitted using new management methods and advanced
technologies for the regulation of heat supply in buildings.
The aim of this study was to evaluate possible effect of
adaptation of European Union energy policy reducing the
air pollution and effectively using the heat energy.
 This
year another project SENET within the INTERREG programme
will be completed. Scandinavian countries, Baltic states,
Poland, Germany and Austria participate in this project.
The main aims of the project are: distribution of experience
of Scandinavian and Western European countries and international
cooperation seeking rational and sustainable energy consumption.
Another project is ESCOBALT within PHARE,
with the aim to make a study where technical-economic parameters
of the district heating systems and modernization plans
in Finland (Helsinki) and Lithuania (Kaunas) will be compared
in detail.
Last year Kaunas joined another big international
project started "Balanced Energy Systems in Advanced
Cities".
This project is implemented following the
6th Common Research Technological Development
and pilot activities programme (CONCERTO) of the European
Commission. The experience gained in this project will be
analyzed and used in creation of sustainable energy management
guidelines for the governments and municipalities in Europe.
by Mr Algirdas Vatiekunas
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