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Three projects to strengthen education, health and social services, and facilitate trade and transport
Bulgaria’s economy has grown steadily since 2000 and this positive trend is expected to continue in the near future. However, raising productivity and employment to narrow the income gap and facilitate convergence with other member states in the European Union (EU) will remain Bulgaria’s main challenge for the next few years. The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved three projects that aim at strengthening the country’s EU integration and convergence of living standards.
The Social Sectors Institutional Reform Development Policy Loan (SIR DPL I) will support Bulgaria’s reform agenda in the areas of health, education, and social protection. The project, the first of three such planned loans, will foster government policies that aim at improving quality and efficiency in the social sectors, promoting access to basic social services, and aligning labor and social policies more closely with EU standards. World Bank assistance is focused, in particular, on providing policy advice to support the Government’s ongoing reforms, such as:
• Introducing external student assessments, and decentralizing school management and financing for primary and secondary schools;
• Promoting employment by changing social assistance and employment legislation;
• Making basic pharmaceuticals more affordable to the majority of the population by changing the pharmaceutical policy.
The total amount of World Bank commitment to this project is EUR 114 million.
The second project approved today will facilitate Bulgaria’s national and international trade and transport by improving the capacity, efficiency and quality of services at selected EU border crossings, with a particular focus on the Trans-European Transport Network. The Second Trade and Transport Facilitation in Southeast Europe (TTFSE II) project builds on the previous Trade and Transport Facilitation operation and consists of four main components:
• Improving the physical capacity and working conditions at selected EU external border crossings with particular focus on the Trans-European Transport Network;
• Constructing the access road linking the Kapitan Andreevo border crossing point to the Maritsa motorway;
• Enhancing the sharing of relevant border crossing data, and streamlining operational procedures of border crossing agencies;
Strengthening institutional capacity.
Total project costs for the TTFSE II amount to EUR 54.6 million and will be financed through the Bulgarian State Budget (EUR 13.7 million) and a EUR 40.9 million World Bank loan.
The Board of Directors also approved an additional financing for the active Bulgaria Social Investment and Employment Promotion Project (SIEP). The project aims at improving the standard of living in disadvantaged communities and making better use of the opportunities presented to Bulgaria by its accession to the European Union. Additional financing for the SIEP amounts to EUR 15 million.
“The World Bank’s portfolio of ongoing and planned projects adds value to Bulgaria’s social and economic development agenda by bringing in European and global experience and best practices”, emphasized Anand Seth, Country Director for Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia.
All three operations have been developed within the framework of the Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for Bulgaria, designed to help the country tackle its challenges in three specific areas:
• Productivity and employment. The CPS seeks to push ahead on structural reforms aimed at raising productivity and employment to help Bulgaria catch up with its EU partners.
• Fiscal sustainability and absorption of EU funds. Through capacity building, the Strategy supports the country’s efforts to close the gap with EU member states by improving public expenditure management, investment planning, and design of projects eligible for EU funds.
• Social inclusion. The World Bank supports policies and investments to reduce social and economic imbalances across the country and help bring poor, vulnerable, and other excluded groups into the mainstream.
The three projects have a maturity of 17 years, including a five-year grace period.
Istvan Dobozi, the Lead Energy Economist at the World Bank, Sustainable Development Department, Europe and Central Asia Region will present the policy of the World Bank, financial instruments, planning and investments in the field of Energy Efficiency in Bulgaria at the 3-rd Congress on EE & RES, 24-26 April. |
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Up to now there are registered experts, entrepreneurs, investors, governmental and municipalities representatives from the following countries: Austria; British Channel Islands; Bulgaria; Croatia; France; Germany; Greece; Ireland; Kosovo; Macedonia; Mongolia; Romania ; Russia; Serbia; Spain; Sweden; Turkey; UK They are working in the fields of these industry branches: Renewable Energy, Nuclear Energy, Environmental impact assessment, Waste to energy, Metallurgy, Development and realization of wind farm projects, Electricity equipment, Production and trade of cereals, Automation, Production and trade of oil products, Biomass, biofuel production, Solar boilers, Mobile Services, Systems Integration, Intelligent Facilities, Communication, Ventilation, air-conditioning, heating products and equipment production, Investment Fund, Real estate consulting, Project management, Certification consulting, Research & Universities, Private Equity, embassy, export promotion agencies, Government administration, Municipality, media , etc. |
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Invaluable knowledge and experience will be shared by over 70 speakers from 22 countries! Among
them:
 Draft Program
The Programme includes the following topics and speakers:
New Energy Mix in Europe
Prof. Arthouros Zervos, President European Renewable Energy Council (EREC), Belgium;
Allan Taylor, U K Department of Trade and Industry's 2010 Target Team - Dr. Winfried Hoffman – President European Photovoltaic Industry Association, Belgium; President German Solar Economy Asociation (BSW) Germany - Vestas activities in Turkey and other South East Europe countries
Frame and development in the Field of EE&RES in Germany
Prof. Josef Nassauer - Bayern Innovatov GmbH, Germany; Angelina Galiteva - Chairperson World Council For Renewable Energy, USA Policy, Law, Financial instruments; Planning & Investment in the Filed of EE & RES in SE Europe
Bulgarian Ministry of Environment
Stoyan Stalev - Director Invest Bulgaria Agency - Dr. Albrecht P. Mozer, Managing Director SolMic; Dr. Vesselinka P. Koch – President Gate-East, Germany, Christian Kraus von Wesendonk VCI-Technoinvest, Germany, Dimitar Manov, Exe. Director CIBOLA, Bulgaria, Marcus Traxler, loan officer BG/Romania European Investment Bank, Luxemberg –
Istvan Dobozi, World Bank, USA, Ivan Gerginov – Ex. Director Bulgarian Energy Efficiency Fund, Nikolay Hadjiiski, Deputy director, EBRD, Bulgaria, Jozsef Szlezak, REC, Hungary - PANEL: Networking between the SE European countries in the filed of EE & RES implementation. Clustering of Regional energy market.
Moderator: V.P. Koch, CEO East Gate, Germany
Nicolau Irina, Counsellor ARCE - Romanian Agency for Energy Conservation; Romania; Tasko Ermenkov, EE Agency, Bulgaria (tbc)
Kostas Tigas, Centre for Renewable Energy Sources; CRES Greece;
Omer Boyacioglu, Member of the Board Trakya Glass Bulgaria
Julije Domac, Energy Institute Hrvoje Pozar, Croatia
MACEF MACEDONIAN CENTER ON ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Energy Efficiency Agency of Serbia
Matchmaking Session, EE & RES Exhibition
Direct Conversion of Solar Energy to Electricity and Heat, resp. Cooling
Prof. Adolf Goetzberger - Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy System, Germany, White Paper –
RES electricity
Gerhard Stryi - Hipp, Managing Director German Association of the Solar Industry (DSW), Germany -
Assoc.Prof. Irina Nita, OVIDIUS - University Romania,
Dr. Winfried Hoffman, Member of the Management Board of Apllied Material GmbH, Germany
Dimitar Mitev, D. Rusev, E. Piskova, S. Tenchev- Asen Zlatarov University; Ecoenergy Bulgaria -
Comparison to Wind Electricity Power-Stations
Velizar Kiryakov - President Association of Ecological Energy producers, Bulgaria -
Frank Stocker, Export Director Wolf Heiztechnik GmbH, Germany, Angelous Kostopoulos, UPC Hellas Wind Energy, Vice President; Greece - Raiffeisen-Leasing Ges.m.b.H Austria .- Raiffeisen-Leasing financing of wind energy projects; Raiffeisen-Leasing Investments / own projects in wind energy
Bioenergy Forum, Matchmaking Session and EE & RES Exhibition; Former US Vice-President Al Gore Film “Inconvenient Truth”
Energy performance in buildings. From energy supply to energy services
Plamen Ivanov, Doors & Windows Association, Bulgaria – Ognian Simov, University of Architecture and Construction, Bulgaria, Todor Nedev - Director Austrotherm Bulgaria, Omer Boyacioglu, Member of the Board Trakya Glass Bulgaria EAD, Enemona, Bulgaria - commercial presentation
Multiprocessing Systems Ltd., Bulgaria, John Avina, Director Abraxas Energy Consulting USA Vollrad Kuhn, Senior Consultant Berliner Energieagentur GmbH Germany, Prof. Nazarski - Bulgarian Association for Construction Insulation and Waterproofing, RES heating. Geothermal heat pumps
Prof. Pall Valdimarsson - University of Iceland, Geothermal good practices from Iceland
Violetta Groseva, Director Energy center Sofia Bulgaria, Mincho Minchev, At.Tashev, University of Food Technologies Bulgaria – Bioenergy Forum, Matchmaking Session and EE & RES Exhibition, Al Gore Film
Register now! |
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25-26 April 2007, 
Sofia, Bulgaria, National Palace of Culture, www.bioenergy.viaexpo.com
The forum is directed to:
- Companies wishing to invest in a new energy source on the Balkans
- CO2 emission traders
- Industrial companies producing large amounts of waste, wishing to utilise it for energy
- Farmers searching for information and technologies on transforming agricultural and animal waste into energy, or considering to grow energy crops
- Government bodies and municipalities
- Biomass, biofuel and renewable energy organisations
- Researchers
- Bioenergy project developers
Register for participation now !!! Draft Program
Opening:
• Svend Brandstrup, AEBIOM & DANBIO DIRECTOR, Denmark,
• R. Garofalo, EBB - European Biodiesel Board, Belgium
• Bulgarian Ministry of Agriculture & Forestry
EU Biomass & biofuel policy and legislation
- Alexandra Langenheld, European Commission DG Transport and Energy, Belgium;
• R. Garofalo, EBB - European Biodiesel Board, Belgium,
• Randy Mott - CEC Government Relations – Sofia, Poland/USA -
Electricity Generation from Bioenergy
• Frank Scillig, Ecofys, Germany -
Heating and cooling using biomass
• Martina Sumenjak, SLOBIOM – Slovenian Biomass Association, Slovenia, • Prof. Giacomo Bizzarri - University of Ferrara, Faculty of Architecture, Italy -
• Michael Temmerman, VALBIOM Walloon Agricultural Research Center, Belgium, • Julije Domac - Energy Institute Hrvoje Pozar, Croatia - Legislation, fiscal regimes , supply-chain and market structures for bio fuels in the transport. Bio fuel standards. “Second generation” biofuels
• Peitzika Eirini - Agricultural Economics and Policy Research Institute, Greece - • Boyan Kavalov - European Commission, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre, Institute for Energy, Clean Energies Unit, New and Clean Energy Technologies Assessment (ACETech), Netherlands -
• Prof. E. Ture, Turkey - : Damage by fossil fuels; General view of world energy consumption; The need for hydrogen energy; advantages and disadvantages of hydrogen energy; Hydrogen production; from mainly renewable energy sopurces; Hydrogen safety issues; Hydrogen energy systems and economy
• Frank Scillig, Ecofys, Germany - • Georg Wachtmeister; TU – Munhen; Germany; • Velimir Segon - Energy Institute Hrvoje Pozar, Croatia - How to Create Investment Opportunities and to Attract capital?
• Magda Kmiecik - FutureCamp GmbH, Germany - Opportunities for Renewables on the Carbon Market
• Rosa Tarrago, Center of Competence for Renewable Energies, Commerzbank AG Germany, - • Stock Exchange
Matchmaking Session, EE & RES Congress & Exhibition, Al Gore Film “Inconvenient Truth”
Agriculture and Energy – Energy Crops. Farmers as bioenergy producers
• Svend Brandstrup, Chairman of the board of AEBIOM (European Biomass Association) & Director of the board of DANBIO (Danish Biomass Association), Denmark, • Prof. Ion Stroia; Institute for Food Research, Romania – • Anna Aladjadjian - Vice Rector Agro University, Bulgaria Waste – to – Energy
• Ella Stengler, Managing Director of CEWEP (Confederation of European Waste-to-Energy Plants), Belgium,
• Ing. Daniel Minev - GE Energy Jenbacher Gas Engine, Bulgaria - Dr. Ing. Maria Nacheva – Enviro-Chemie, Bulgaria - r
• Sebastian Wahe, Kalin Ignatov, Amandus Kahl, Germnay, • Horst Muller - Muller Abfallprojekte Gmbh, Austria - • Dr. Risto V. Filkoski – Ass. Prof., University “Sts Cyril and Methodius", Macedonia - • Ognen Dimitrov - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Skopje, Macedonia - • Olexander Tashirev, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Matchmaking Session, EE & RES Exhibition, Al Gore Film |
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International Exhibition on EE & RES in Sofia, Bulgaria – 25-28 April 2007:
Thermal - and hydroinsulation systems, gasket materials, PVC profiles, electronic energy saving automation, new kind of heating with an anode-cathode low-energy consumption heater, energy saving lighting, water floor heating with thermal pumps, gas infrared heaters, gas hot air installations and curtains, consulting services on energy efficiency and renewable energy sources projects.
Solar technologies - air-conditioning and hot household water equipment, photovoltaic installations and elements, solar accumulators and batteries, sun collectors - vacuum-tube and selective of panel type, glass with online and offline coating for solar control and/or thermal control, solar glass for panels and solar batteries, wind measuring equipment, wind turbines, cogeneration modules for generating electrical and thermal energy by means of natural gas and biogas.
Machines and plants for the production of alternative fuels - all that is needed from consultation to the production of biodiesel. On exhibition will be: working mini installation producing ecofuel; pyrolisis and pellet boilers; ecologically clean biogas installations for organic waste treatment; waste biomass burning heating stations; straw burning heating installations; systems for the production of biofuels such as: pellets, bioethanol, biodiesel and biogas; technologies for biogas production from waste waters
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The Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) today announced a call for project proposals which support the development of markets for renewable energy and energy efficiency. The project call is REEEP's largest in its four year history with more than 3 million Euro available for projects in least developed countries and emerging market economies.
The project call received funding from a consortium comprised of Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Norway and the United Kingdom. Norway, the new major donor of REEEP and the United Kingdom will be pooling funds allowing for larger investments into projects. Ireland and Italy will continue their focus on Africa and New Zealand will bring small island states in the Pacific into focus.
The REEEP call is an open tender seeking projects from priority countries - China, India and Brazil and from across the developing world. Based on the experience gained over the last two years with a bottom-up approach to selecting projects, REEEP will be piloting a combination of bottom-up and top-down commissioned strategic projects.
REEEP is inviting countries with specific legislative or regulatory needs or development finance institutions with need for financing and business models to develop a project directly with REEEP. It is hoped that by assisting governments with lowering risk within the renewables and energy efficiency sector and working with development agencies to encourage business and finance models, finance can be attracted into new markets.
REEEP has also decided to further increase the importance of energy efficiency in its portfolio and throughout emerging markets. The project call will be seeking bidders for the production of a REEEP Report on Energy Efficiency - in order to accurately portray the benefits and role that energy efficiency can play in improving energy security, lowering carbon emissions, and enhancing industrial competitiveness, covering the market, policy, stakeholders and key initiatives.
The call for project proposals will also commission work around reducing the risk of investing into renewables and energy efficiency, synthesizing REEEP experiences from its 50 previous projects and replicating successes achieved in the 18 completed projects.
Dr. Marianne Osterkorn, REEEP International Director stated that the partnership can now add value across a number of areas. "We can now fund larger and longer term projects and in addition to our bottom-up approach, the targeted approach will help to strategically accelerate key markets for renewable energy and energy efficiency".
Members & Associates can download bid documents at: http://www.reeep.org/groups/6thcallforproposals
To become an Associate, please fill-out the form at: http://www.reeep.org/trampoline/createaccountpublic2/
REEEP previously disbursed ˆ 2.2 million euro in 2006 and ˆ 1.1 million in 2005.
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Every year the loss of economic and social resourses due to environmental problems worlwide is growing. According to the official report of the WWF (World environmental conservation organization) global water resources decrease every year. The combination of climate change along with poorly planned water infrastructure and resource mismanagement is affecting mainly the rich industrial countries but also making this crisis truly global.
The following international 2007 exhibitions in Shanghai already have attracted the foreign interest, including - European.
23-25 April 2007 - the 7th China International Electric Power & Electric Engineering Equipment &Technology Exhibition EPETEE 2007
27-29 April 2007 - the 8th International Environmental Protectio n Tech & Equipment Exhibition EPTEE 2007 parallel to:
27-29 April 2007 - WSDWTF 2007 – International Water Supply & Drainage and Water Treatment Exhibition
At EPTEE 2007, famous foreign and domestic enterprises, such as Hitachi , Danfoss, Wei willing, Heraeus, Philips, Hash, Rehau, Kay-chuen, Huahong Copper, Dow, Hyde, Kohl, Condenser, Nuoruite, Yida, Suofeima etc , have booth areas with a substantial increase compared to the previous. In addition, more professional associations organize country pavilions to participate at the show, for instance Water Environmental Federation (WEF) in the United States , Korean IPR, Korea Environmental Preservation Association (KEPA), Japan APEAL, Spain CONSEA, France NEXTRADE, Malaysian Water Association, Singapore Confederation of Industries, Russian TIL and Israel Consulate in China etc.
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Less then a month away, the 3-rd International Congress for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Sources is gaining speed.
VIA EXPO Ltd.
