The company will check the drawing from the Green Savings program

Prague - Approximately every second building from the insulated houses or buildings equipped with new ecological heating, for which owners received a contribution from the state program Green Savings, will be checked within less than four years by the winner of the tender announced by the State Environmental Fund (SFŽP). Interested parties can apply for the contract worth 50 million korunas until mid-July. "Then we will open the envelopes and we want the inspections to start as soon as possible," said Petr Štěpánek, the fund director, to ČTK.
    There is interest from buyers of emission credits, whose money redistributes the Green Savings program, to have the state check the use of billions of korunas in the program. "It's mainly the Japanese; one group has already been to check a project in the Central Bohemian Region," Štěpánek said. He added that the level of promised inspections affects the price at which the Czech Republic sells its emission surpluses.
    The fund is already conducting inspections, and the winner of the tender will help manage thousands of on-site inspections. According to Štěpánek, this work is for construction engineers who will measure whether the insulation was properly used or if the parameters of the new heat source used meet the program's conditions. According to the tender conditions, the winner should perform a maximum of 25,000 inspections.
    By selling carbon dioxide emission credits (AAU) abroad, the Czech Republic has generated around 18 billion korunas to date, which must be spent by the end of 2012. The right to sell emission units was granted to the Czech Republic because it has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 27.6 percent since 1990, while committing to an 8 percent reduction in the Kyoto Protocol. Therefore, unused rights to emit harmful emissions can be sold by the Czech Republic in the form of AAU units to other countries or companies.
    The Green Savings program was recently designated only for households and residential buildings. The expansion of the program to public buildings was made possible by a contractual annex signed in June by the Minister of the Environment Rut Bízková and the Executive Director of the Kyoto Protocol for Japan, Yasuhiro Shimizu.
    Interest in drawing subsidies from the program has been increasing since the initial caution in the spring of last year. By the beginning of June, the SFŽP had supported 22,000 projects with a total of six billion korunas.