PDD - Sawdust 2000

Baseline Study - Sawdust 2000

Monitoring Plan - Sawdust 2000

Determination Report

Verification Report 2008

Verification Report 2009

Verification Report 2010

Verification Report 2011

“Sawdust 2000” is a fuel-switch JI project implementing technology for using the sawdust as an energy source replacing fossil fuels in the district heating systems of 5 medium-size cities. The project was launched by the Romanian Ministry of Environment and Water Management and the Danish Environmental Protection Agency (today - Danish Energy Agency) in 2002. A pilot project was previously implemented in a small town in Romania (Tasca) in the period 1999 - 2001 based on a Danish grant. 

The benefits of the project are presented below:
• Renewable CO2 neutral energy;
• Rehabilitation of the district heating systems;
• Reduction of GHG emissions (~ 720.000 tones CO2 eq.) 
• Substitution of fossil fuels and methane avoidance;
• Reduction of the environmental impact caused by illegal dumping of wood waste from the sawmills and the wood processing industry;
• Heat price paid by the final consumers not affected by the development of world market fuel prices;
• State, county or municipality heat price subsidy reduced;
• Capacity building and know-how transferred to local authorities and operators; 
• Utilization of local energy resources;
• Development of new business areas and improvement of social standard.