Municipal Network for Energy Efficiency

Like Russia, Ukraine has tremendous potential to increase the efficiency of its buildings and urban infrastructure. Unlike Russia, Ukraine has too few energy resources. Ukraine faces some difficult choices because it must import most of the natural gas it uses to heat its cities. Every cubic meter of gas imported from Russia hurts Ukraine's balance of payments and increases its debt to its northern neighbor and, as a result, the central and regional governments are telling the cities to do what they can to reduce gas consumption and improve efficiency.

In our Library you can find the "Ukraine Case Studies " paper with descriptions of the best practice efforts in Ukrainian cities to improve energy efficiency. The objective of identifying and describing these programs is to replicate efforts in other cities in Ukraine that can happen without donor funding.

Within the "Work in Progress" section of the Library we have posted two additional Case Study documents presenting:

- Improving the payments collection in communal sphere in the city of Lutsk; and - Partial recovery of residential debts for communal services in Berdyansk, Khmelnitsky, and Zhytomir .