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Let’s change
Four years ago, we decided to turn our dissatisfaction with air pollution into action that could further improve air quality. We started with what we knew best and what was troubling us the most –…
Better solutions
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…
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.…
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,…
North Macedonia: Supporting individual households in reducing air pollution
In North Macedonia, 10 million euros is approved by the government for the purchase of air conditioner inverters for families from Tetovo, Bitola, Kicevo and Skopje, so that they can stop burning fuels with high…