Project news

Modern solar power station and collector equipment requires skilled technical maintenance. Therefore two employees of Vodlozersky NP received instructions from solar energy expert of ANO EEC.

One more facility is now equipped with a solar power station - eco camp Calypso on Velikostrov island. Solar panels fully satisfy its demand in power.

For three days – from April 21 to April 23 in the village of Kuganavolok (NP Vodlozersky) quite a complex task was performed by a team of specialists from Petrozavodsk. They installed a solar collector and a boiler for heating water, which were purchased within the framework of KA5043 GreenSol project.

In the renovated building of the pumping station of the 2 lift, on the night of April 8 to 9, 2020, work was completed on connecting a new modular automatic pumping station (MAPS), equipped with Grundfos pumps, to the water distribution network of Sortavala.

In the frame of an online meeting from 24 to 26 March, the LowTEMP partnership live-tested learning material on innovative strategies and tools to plan, finance and manage low-temperature district heating (LTDH) systems.

On March 17, 2020 management of Karelvodokanal visited construction sites of facilities covered by project KA6000: the pumping station of the 1 lift and the pumping station of the 2 lift.

In Sortavala, infrastructure is being built to improve the quality of clean water. The project manager for the EU-Russia joint project is Ilkka Pirhonen from Joensuu, who presented the progress of the project to the Karelian.

An article on project KA5041 Green Nature Based Solutions in Tourism to reduce negative impact on the environment (NatureBEST) was published in a Karjalan Sanomat issue dated 29.01.2020.

On February 26, 2020 partners of KA5043 met in Kostomuksha to visit the pilot site in Kostomukshsky Nature Reserve. At the work meeting of project partners other nature protected areas shared their achievements and plans, and made arrangements for joint events this year. 

On February 13, 2020 a work meeting of ANO Energy Efficiency Centre and heads of committees for housing utilities and social development took place at Petrozavodsk City Administration. At the meeting ANO EEC presented the results of survey of heat supply systems of municipal social facilities such as kindergartens, schools, libraries and cultural institutions.

On January 29, 2020 a work meeting of project partners took place in the form of a video conference to discuss early version of software developed by Arbonaut Ltd.

In August 2019 project partners conducted joint water sampling aimed to record the quality of water before any renovation and construction activities in the framework of project KA6000 took place. SYKE environmental experts presented their findings.