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The replacement of old, inefficient heating devices is not cheap, but it pays off in many ways. This is the story of Cvijetin Maksimović from Dvorovi near Bijeljina (Bosnia and Herzegovina), who decided to abandon…
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Accelerating the change-out of obsolete household heating devices in the Western Balkans
Some 3 million WB6 households keep warm by burning firewood often of low quality, wet wood in inefficient stoves producing too much air pollution and not enough heat. They need to change to better technologies.…
Can we afford to continue investing so little in solving a problem so costly: how to finance household heating upgrades?
Author: Rafael Pupovac, Business analyst and consultant Inefficient heating devices are the primary source of PM2.5 emissions in the Western Balkans[1]. The total number of annual premature deaths in the Western Balkans (WB6) attributable to…
Does your house have a coat for the winter?
Author: Stefanovski Zdravko grad.mech.eng. Senior Technical Energy Efficiency Expert The building stock is both unique and heterogeneous in its relation to the cultural diversity and history of the Western Balkans. It is aged and subject…
What is the future of biomass-based household heating devices in the Western Balkans?
Author: Dušan Kitanović The market for heating systems in the Western Balkans used to be traditionally dominated by solid fuel appliances which were cheap to buy and supplied with fuel (wood and coal) that were…
Mass change-out scheme? Who’s going to do it?
Author: Pavle Golicin You’re smart… You change the old for the new… You change the bad for the good… You change the wrong for the right…[1] Thinking about the change-out of old stoves, I kept…
Publicly funded change-out schemes for wood-fired stoves must be conditional on the safe and efficient turnover of old devices: Here’s why
Author: Rebeka Božović “Smederevac?” scrap metal dealers were almost puzzled when we interviewed them for the quantities of scrap metal coming from disused solid fuel stoves, “Oh yes, we do get one, every now and…
Security, practicality and sticking to “what is natural”: Behavioural patterns related to household-heating practices in Serbia
Author: Darko Stojilović, Psychology MA In the Western Balkans, the use of wood, coal or other solid fuels is excessively high. Two-thirds of all households in the region use solid fuels or fuelwood for heating,…
Unapređenje pomoći domaćinstvima u Srbiji da smanje zagađenje vazduha
Unapređenje pomoći domaćinstvima u Srbiji da smanje zagađenje vazduha RES fondacija, od jula 2021. godine, obezbeđuje tehničku podršku i pomoć lokalnim samoupravama u Srbiji čiji su projekti odabrani u sklopu konkursa Vlade Srbije u februaru…
RES Foundation in the National Coalition Against Energy Poverty
The Ministry of Human and Minority Rights and Social Dialogue of the Republic of Serbia, in cooperation with the Ministry of Mining and Energy, invited civil society organizations to apply for membership in the National…