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Community Development Support Program in the Russian Federation Based on Information and Communication Technologies (CDSP-ICT) 2011-2014
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Automation of the energy resources accounting and consumption system in Khomutovo settlement.
Requested amount $12 768
Grantee and other contributions $20 973
Total cost $33 741
The urban settlement of Khomutovo, a municipality of Irkutsky Raion in Irkutsk Oblast, is located at a distance of 25 km from Irkutsk on the banks of Kuda River that flows into Angara River. The municipality includes six populated centers (Khomutovo, Talka, Pozdnyakova, Kuda, Plishkino and Gorny) and has a population of over 12,000. Since olden times (over 325 years ago), it has been a transient point on the Main Siberian Trade Route and the site of an emerging Cossack movement and the development of new trades and agriculture to satisfy the needs of Irkutsk and nearby settlements. Up to date, Khomutovo remains the most densely populated and well-developed populated center in Irkutsky Raion. It has a public forum portal, the local administration actively interacts with the public in energy-saving decision-making and on issues related to improving wellbeing in the community.
Community problems addressed by the Project:
- Lack of real-time automated accounting and tracking of energy consumption, which leads to overstated billing for energy resources consumed by social institutions and community members as compared with actual consumption.
- Inefficient system of energy consumption and high costs paid by social institutions are worsened by budget subsidies.
- Inadequate accident awareness and elimination due to ICT underdevelopment creates risks in the community and at social institutions.
- Poorly functioning mechanism of re-investing energy savings and additional raised funds from the public, business and government (consolidated budget) into addressing social community issues (energy-saving and improving the infrastructures of social institutions).
Project summary:
- Setting up a dispatcher information center at the local Culture and Sports Complex to record actual energy consumption; and the installation of an anti-vandal information terminal at the Community Center, to which social institutions are hooked up and later residential houses will be hooked up as well;
- Conducting an energy audit in the social institutions of the municipality: at the Culture and Sports Complex (community center, health center and library) and using its findings for modernizing energy systems, installing meters and connecting them to the general dispatcher center;
- Launching a system of monitoring energy costs and timely informing the community with the use of internet networks about real-time energy consumption, accidents and measures to prevent them and also about energy-saving technologies;
- Dissemination of information about the project and its results via a specially built website, articles in the media and the publication of a brochure about the project and the benefits of energy saving
Project results:
- This project implemented a system of recording and monitoring energy consumption that allows social institutions and residents to control their utilities expenses in real-time with the help of ICT and pay for actually consumed energy, which, in turn, has improved the quality of life in this community;
- Energy consumption was reduced by 30% (120, 000 kW/h a year) and expenses of social institutions for heating and maintaining their buildings decreased by 240,000 rub. a year;
- Time spent on eliminating accidents at the heat and power supply systems and their consequences was reduced by 10-20 times;
- Public awareness about the use of energy-saving technologies was increased and the information on the operation of the dispatcher information center was disseminated, which helps promote citizen participation in addressing municipal energy-saving issues;
- Energy-savings were reinvested in social energy-efficiency programs based on the experience of the pilot project;
- ICT (websites, information seminars, public debates and publications) were widely used to replicate project results to other settlements in Irkutsk Oblast with the aim of enhancing sustainable community development.
Contact person:
Alexander Invanenko, deputy head of Khomutovo Municipal Administration for Education, Economics and Finances
Contact information:
7/a Kirova St., Khomutovo, Irkutsk Oblast 666540
Tel//fax: 8 (3952) 696-502, e-mail admkhom@yandex.ruOrganization:
Title
Category
Profile
Khomutovo Municipal Administration
Municipal non-profit
Municipal governance
Duration (months)
10
Start date
01.04.2012
End date
31.01.2013
