OREANDA-NEWS. The event devoted to the issue of energy efficiency which is one of the most important points of heating supply took place in Petrozavodsk. On June, 9 leading experts in power engineering from Karelia and Sweden have gathered to share their experience in the course of the seminar on the subject of Energy Efficiency: from a Tree in the Forest to Biofuels in the Heating System.

Representatives of executive authorities, sectoral ministries and departments, leading companies engaged in heating supply and energy efficiency have shared advanced experience in using biofuels, information on novel solutions in the sphere of facilities, and modes of provision of biofuels.

Deputy Minister of Construction, Housing and Communal Services, and Energy of the Republic of Karelia Vitaly Sergeev opened the seminar. In his opening remarks he has mentioned that direct communication and direct exchange of experience would enable acceleration of implementation of advanced technologies and achieve beneficial effect in enhancement of heating supply of northern territories. Vitaly Sergeev has also made a report to participants of the seminar on the subject of Present and proposed objects of bioenergetics in the Republic of Karelia.

A meeting with representative of Järven Ecotech AB which designs and prepares complete plants for the purification and collection of the days, leachate and waste water for inhabited localities was held in parallel with the seminar, and demonstration of the technology of assemblage of pipe joints with the help of electric-welding sockets Mittel+rapid remote control system (Sweden) took place in territory of a modular boiler-house near a brickyard in one of the districts of Petrozavodsk.

Officials of the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Communal Services, and Energy of Karelia Dmitry Gorokh, head of the Department of Power and Utilities, and Galina Kondrashkova, chief of the Communal Infrastructure Department, have taken part in the demonstration.

On results of the seminar its participants have made a decision to continue discussion of the issue of energy efficiency and use of biofuel as one of the most eco-friendly and profitable resources of heat supply power industry.