Date: 5th January,2011Student: Ignas Petraitis

1. IntroductionThe purpose of this report is to survey the current situation of energy saving in Marijampolė city and find out the ways the municipality tries to save the energy.

2.Visit to the city mayorComenius multilateral school partnership project "Addressing the Energy Crunch: Every Little Action Counts' participants 8b grade students with an English teacher at Edita Grubienė visited Marijampole municipality and interviewed the mayor Mr V.Brazys about the energy efficiency in Marijampole municipality.

3. The discussed issuesStudents wanted to find out how many schools and kindergartens are being renovated, or planned to be renovated; they were interested in the energy savings while illuminating the streets, if alternative energy sources are used in the city, what is the further fate of the sorted waste.

4. The measures takenThe mayor declared that economic crisis didn't affect Marijampole water and energy prices so much, but still it affected individual people.The city government tries to save the energy in different ways. First of all, the 85% of the street lamps are being changed into energy saving light bulbs. They save about 30% all consumed energy. Every office and all business companies as well as town people are encouraged to save electricity while having day and night electricity meters. Second, two schools are already newly renovated and more are going to be renovated in the coming years. Third, the city uses the alternative sources of energy that is biofuel to provide city heating and hot water. During the summer period they almost use only biofuel. There is a plan to build a biofuel plant in the old rubbish dump place of the city and start to produce biofuel or even electricity. This should reduce the waste disposal fee for the citizens. Now the city sorts rubbish and throws it away into three kinds of different containers: for glass, plastic, paper and other kind of rubbish. Later glass and plastic is sold, mainly abroad and reused again.Moreover, the city municipality wants to get a support of 26 million Euros from European fund in order to build a plant for drying the silt of our river Šešupė, later it would be used for heating houses.

5. ConclusionTo sum up, this report has presented different means of saving energy by Marijampolės municipality and encouraged us all start saving energy at school and at home.