Pavlodar to spend 800 million tenge on green region

Pavlodar will spend 800 million tenge ($5.3 million) for construction of the green region, Tengrinews.kz reports. Pavlodar authorities are planning to make one of the densely populated regions of the city green and energy-efficient in the nearest two years. “We plan to spend 800 million tenge on implementation of the project called Energy-efficient green Ussol region. We have an agreement with KazAtomProm that produces energy-efficient equipment. They have good technologies and experts. We will work with them to make our Ussol region energy-efficient and green,” Pavlodar Akim (Mayor) Orazkeldy Kairgeldinov said. According to him, the implementation of the project will take two years and will be done in two stages. This year’s stage will make street lighting more efficient and see new siblings planted in the target region. The second stage in 2014 will be focused on making internal power networks of residential buildings of Ussol region more energy-efficient in the framework of the public utilities modernization program. “We have made the preliminary calculations. I personally took part in this work. We found that implementation of the energy-saving program in Ussol region will allow the citizens to lower their energy expenses by 39-40 percent. This means that people will be saving and paying less for the utilities,” Kairgeldinov said.