Conference: Efectively in self-government
On 24-th of February 2010 the Energy Agency in Nitra held a conference "Effectively in self-government" in the Congress Hall of the Agricultural University in Nitra. The conference was designed for mayors of towns and villages.
The program was created specifically for the current needs of savings in local government:
- we showed how to save energy and thereby how to save financial resources - we explained how to change the public lighting of a technically and cost-effective
- we showed how to prepare project without errors
- we looked together, whether the European funds are the only possible way of financing projects, whether there are also non-traditional forms of funding and how to use them.
The topics of the conference:
Possibilities of energy savings
- Deficiencies in buildings in terms of energy savings
- Concept of energy savings of residential area in Denmark
- Renovation of public lighting and financing from savings
- Energy audits and their benefits
Possibilities of RES using
- Legislation of RES for municipalities
- Solar energy using in Slovakia, current status and potentials
- Photovoltaic and practical example
- Energy Concept of city of Vráble (producing heat by biomass)
- Biogas – effective energy source
- Biomass
- Automatic hot-water boilers burning wood chips
- New geothermal projects for heating Slovak cities
- Experiences and benefits of using geothermal energy in Galanta (Slovak republic)
Possibilities of financing energy activities
- Possibilities and structures of financing energy projects
- Supporting financing from structural grants
- Possibilities of financing municipality power engineering
- Energy services – opportunities for municipalities
Project creation and implementation
- National structural funds
- Project creation and realisation
