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Create a HOA for your bright future!
On Oct 24 2019 in Shchastia, within TREND Project, MDI held a seminar on HOA establishment and operation.
Viktoriia Hryb, MP, member of VR Committee on Energy, Housing and Communal Services, made welcome remarks. She stressed upon the importance of HOA establishment in order to implement EE measures in residential sector.
The first speaker, Viktoriia Pohorielova, sr housing maintenance & management consultant with MDI, presented the notion of HOA as the most effective mechanism of housing management, enabling its members to fully exercise their…
MDI has delivered a consultancy event for OSA licensees of Cherkasy Oblast
On October 7, 2019 in Cherkasy, the Limited Liability Company “Municipal Development Institute” (MDI LTD) delivered a consultancy event on operational activity of DH utility companies according to novelties in legislation.
The event covered the following
- latest novelties and draft by-laws in DH
- features of the transition period in tariff formation and setting according to the new rules
- key provisions of the new Procedure for tariff formation of OSA/KCSA licensees, approved by the CMU Decree No. 291 dd. 03.04.2019
- aspects of one-/two-tier tariff formation for thermal energy (TE) and hot water supply. Projection of profit to be included into TE tariff
- Recommendation on application of Minregion Decree No.…
We are going to launch the experiment soon!
We are starting the experiment!
Results of the Sixth EES-NG Project Wave (school year 2018-2019)
- Project received “Partnership for Sustainability Award 2018” in the “Planet” Category
- Project Distance Learning Program (PDN) was approved by the Ministry of Education (MoE) to be
- applied at the secondary schools new selective course “My EE House” for the 4 th grade was launched and has been recommended by the MoE since June 2019)
- Last year 3 interregional classes were…
DTEK Energy Efficient Schools – New Generation Project: What’s New?
- From now on, not only a school rep, but also a student may register at the program to study the
- selective course “Energy Supply and Energy Efficiency 101” for the 6-8 th grades or extracurricular
- course “ABC of the Housing and Communal Management” for 9-11 th grades
- The participants are free to create…
Following numerous requests, MDI has held additional consultancy events on fees under the commercial metering of communal services
The issue of fees for installation, maintenance and replacement of commercial metering units according to the newly adopted Laws of Ukraine “On Housing and Communal Services” and “On Commercial Metering of Thermal Energy and Water Supply” is so urgent, that, to meet the numerous requests of the utility companies, MDI ltd has conducted two additional consultancy events – on July 25 and 31 respectively.
Similarly to the event that took place on July 18 2019 in Kyiv, MDI ltd covered the issue of fees for installation, maintenance and replacement of commercial metering units, highlighting the correspondent legal, economic, financial and accounting aspects.
The…
MDI Consultants as the international experts of the USAID Central Asia Еnergy Links Project have conducted a series of events in Tajikistan
On a week of July 8-12, Kadriia Safiulina, Anatolii Koliienko and Yuliia Sviezhentseva, MDI Consultants as the international experts of the USAID Central Asia Еnergy Links Project (USAID Project) have delivered two seminars in Dushanbe, Tajikistan – for media on July 10 and for energy companies – on July 11. On July 12, they participated in the Public Outreach Group (POG) meeting. This POG was set up at the Ministry of Energy and Water Resources (MERW) of the Republic of Tajikistan within the WG on EE and RES.
The seminars went very well. The participants proved to be active listeners, made a number of questions and engaged in discussions. In the aftermath, they sincerely thanked for the provided useful information and practical skills.
At the POG meeting, the…
Students’ Scores within Energy Efficient Schools – New Generation Project (EES-NG Project) in 2018-2019 school year
The Sixth Wave of the EES-NG Project has just ended. This time, it offered opportunities also to the primary school pupils all across Ukraine, who unveiled the “Secrets of the EE House”, learnt how to be proactive homeowners, co-owners of the multi-residential building, and how to save energy resources.
The total of participant schools is 1272. In the 2nd semester of 2018-2019 school year, 834 schools were engaged, including 487 establishments from urban areas and 347 – from rural regions. 7628 students were studying the courses, and 1179 teachers were acting as mentors.
This year, 20 schools went for the new option and studied the course “My EE House” for the 4th grade, based on the tailored syllabus and manual.
The table…
Secrets of EE house will be unveiled for the primary school pupils
Recently MDI has organized a round table to discuss the results of the pilot implementation of the optional course “My EE house”, designed for 4th grade pupils. In late June, we have received the official letter form the Institute of Educational Curriculum Modernization under the Ministry of Education (MoE). As the letter states, the committee on pedagogics and methodology for primary school under the scientific and methodological educational board at MoE had conducted a scientific and methodological assessment of the program textbook for 4th grade pupils “The Secrets of the EE House” and the correspondent syllabus “My EE house”, prepared by Kadriia Safiulina, MSc, associate prof.
We are pleased to inform that the committee has approved both documents as suitable for…