Summary
The Romanian Govern recently issued several national ordinances and decrees to encourage the energy efficiency investments in buildings. HARGHITA Energy Management Public Service decided to start an information campaign for the citizens explaining the financing support to get them to want to improve energy efficiency of their own residences. In this view, the Agency contacted the local authorities of Harghita County principal cities as well as the representative of the Association of Building Owners and invited them to a presentation on energy efficiency, organized by the Harghita Agency staff. As a second step we contacted the Financial Administration of Harghita County in order to elaborate a "leaflet" with practical advices on how the citizens could recover the money they invested into the energy improvements.
Results
The Harghita Agency now disposes the listing of Associations of Building Owners, county wide. After the relevant presentations, organized by the Harghita Agency, no less than 3 Association showed their interest to use these financial "loop holes". However, as it turned out, the associations in question wanted to perform only a limited scale reforms without reforming the entire buildings. In concrete, in all three cases they only wanted to change the normal windows in thermo isolated glass. Naturally, this enormously reduced the possibility of obtaining the financing.
Still, with regard to the leaflet's impact, Miercurea Ciuc's finance department informed us that more than 300 applications were presented for this refund on the basis of energy efficiency investments carried out by the private citizens in the residential housing. Thus, the Agency considers the whole action to be a moderate success, especially in the view of the economic situation and the lack of the adequate financial support by the national government. In addition, the action also managed to raise the awareness level of the general public stressing the close link between the energy savings and the environment protection.
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