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 Italy Joins Partnership to Develop Balkan Region
With the signing of a memorandum of understanding in Rome on July 17, Italy joined the U.S. and Greece in an innovative public-private partnership to stimulate sustainable economic growth, energy security... Read More ...
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 Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator Inaugurates New USAID/Georgia Headquarters
Celebrating 15 years of partnership with the Georgian people, USAID launched the opening of its new building on the embassy compound on July 23rd... Read More ...
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 Life Gets Brighter In Alchevsk
Poor street lighting is a common problem in many Ukrainian cities, including Alchevsk. It is especially felt in fall and winter, when daylight hours are limited. Elderly people tend not to go out on the street in the dark, unless it is urgent... Read More ...
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 Energy Efficiency Project Lights Up Town
Ukraine’s communal buildings are notoriously energy inefficient. As energy prices climb, outdated technology becomes an increasingly larger liability for municipal budgets... Read More ...
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 U.S. Disaster Assistance to Tajikistan Tops $2 Million
The American people, through USAID, is providing more than $830,000 to the people of Tajikistan after extreme winter weather and an energy crisis have caused a humanitarian crisis in the country... Read More ...
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 Armenia Plans for an Energy-Safe Future
A landlocked country with no fossil fuels resource, Armenia has been greatly dependent on nuclear power as one of its main sources of energy... Read More ...
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 Competitive Power Markets Draw Central Asian Energy Delegation to U.S.
In July 2007, USAID’s Regional Energy Markets Assistance Program (REMAP) organized a trip for ministry officials, utility specialists, and regulatory officials from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan to examine how wholesale electricity markets... Read More ...
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 Kyrgyzstan to Trade on the Kazakhstan Power Market
USAID’s Central Asia Regional Energy Market Assistance Program (REMAP) helped launch a more transparent international electric power sales arrangement that will benefit both countries... Read More ...
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 Electricity Loss Reduction Addressed at a Regional Forum
In June 2006, the Regional Markets Assistance Program for Central Asia (REMAP) organized the Regional Electricity Loss Reduction Forum in cooperation with the Government of Kyrgyzstan... Read More ...
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 Gas Makes Refugee Homes Happier in North Ossetia
In June 2007, more than 20 refugee families from Georgia, Tajikistan, and North Ossetia were at last able to boil water for tea in their homes. Thanks to a USAID-funded program that brought a gas pipeline to a remote village in North Ossetia... Read More ...
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 Energy Stakeholders Train on Tariff Development, Utility Regulation
With the support of USAID, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) delivered a five-day training in May 2007 to the Azerbaijani Tariff Council Staff and other relevant energy sector stakeholders... Read More ...
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 Regional Electricity Program Seeks to Build Energy Trade
In early February, the Regional Electricity Marketing Assistance Program (REMAP), a three-year USAID program implemented by USEA, gathered 55 participants from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Russia... Read More ...
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 Promoting Private Sector Investment in Georgia Hydropower
Generation from renewable resources contributes to Georgia’s energy independence and security. Small hydro power plant (SHP) potential is estimated to range between 300 and 500 megawatts, on par with many of Georgia’s largest power assets... Read More ...
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 Villagers Warm to Customs Reforms
Businessman Bacho Dolidze is turning post-Rose Revolution policy reforms into results on the ground in Georgia. Since 2003, his company, the Consulting Group of Caucasus, has been laying new gas pipelines and repairing old ones... Read More ...
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 Communal Meters Bring Light to Rural Georgia
Georgia’s infamous electricity shortages have affected rural areas the worst. Routine power rationing and blackouts often lead to rural Georgians going weeks without electricity... Read More ...
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 Remetering Transforms Life, Attitudes in Georgian City
Rustavi is a desolate city about 30 kilometers east of Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi. When the Soviet Union collapsed, so too did Rustavi’s many factories, which once provided reliable employment for the city’s residents... Read More ...
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 Georgian Energy Project Wins Prestigious International Award
USAID’s work with the government of Georgia to transform the largest Georgian state-owned energy utility from a corrupt, inefficient operation into a trusted, well-functioning company... Read More ...
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 Energy Efficiency Project Supports Sustainable Community Development
To date, the “Nevyansk-Favorite City” Project, implemented under the USAID-funded Replication of Lessons Learned (ROLL) Program for sustainable development of model communities in Russia has already saved Nevyansk a total of 500,000 rubles... Read More ...
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 BiH Power Companies Learn to Compete on Merit
For the first time, BiH power companies had to prove their worth before gaining the right to generate and distribute power... Read More ...
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 Passive Smoking – There’s Nothing Passive About It
The Ministry of Health and USAID have launched an innovative public information campaign tackling the subject of passive smoking... Read More ...
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Historic Treaty to Boost South East Europe Energy Integration
The first-ever multilateral treaty in South East Europe was signed in Athens, Greece on October 25, 2005... Read More ...
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 USAID Local Government Reform Project Warms Moldovan Neighborhood
Lidia Lazareva, a married mother of two children, is as grateful as anybody in the Sheftelik neighborhood of the Moldovan town of Ceadir Lunga – and perhaps more so than most -- that she finally has a natural gas hook-up... Read More ...
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'Cash Collection Centers' Greatly Increase Electric Bill Collection Rates
24-hour a day electricity is rare in Kosovo, as an old power plant faces problems generating sufficient power – and most consumers don’t pay for what they use... Read More ...
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 Western NIS Enterprise Fund (WNISEF) Introduces Energy Efficient Technologies to Ukrainian Industry
WNISEF’s investment in Energy Alliance has made it possible for Ukrainian enterprises to access energy efficiency solutions which considerably reduce their energy costs and thus make Ukrainian products more competitive... Read More ...
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 Forest Resources and Technology Project Seeks Solutions for Russia
Promoting Cleaner Biomass Energy in the Russian Far East “USAID is strengthening the wood processing sector while also protecting the value of the resource as well as environment... Read More ...
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Reconnection of the High Voltage Grids of Southeast Europe
On October 10, 2004, the electric grids of Southeast Europe, including Greece, were reconnected to the interconnected system of western Europe. Since the 1991 destruction from war of a large power substation at Ernestinovo in eastern Croatia... Read More ...
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