Music powered by solar energy at SUN Dă-i Fest

Thousands of people came to discover eco technologies and music powered by solar energy at SUN Dă-i Fest, third edition, held on Sunday in Chisinau. The festival concluded the series of events within the EU Sustainable Energy Week in Moldova. SUN Dă-i Fest is organized by the EU funded Energy and Biomass Project, Agency for Energy Efficiency and POT Music.

The Public Garden ”Ștefan cel Mare” was transformed for a day in an outdoor exhibition. At this event were presented modern technologies of solar, wind, biomass and geothermal. Young people from schools and universities showed to participants the innovations discovered by them which helps us save energy and reduce energy consumption.

"It is an enormous pleasure to participate at the third edition of SUN Dă-i Fest organized with the support of the Energy and Biomass Project, funded by the European Union. This event, which concludes the EU Sustainable Energy Week in Moldova, shows how important sustainable energy is for us and the planet on which we live, but also that each of us can be a part of the process of changing the way we consume energy", stated Pirkka Tapiola, the EU Ambassador to the Republic of Moldova.

At the festival was organized a fair of artisans who exposed for sale decorative objects, jewelry and paintings created from natural products.

Eco enthusiasts were able to buy notebooks, pens recycled from cardboard products, clocks powered by the hydro energy or the sun energy, as well as solar chargers for mobile phones. Visitors attended the master class of waste recycling, sewed bags out of advertising banners and stained a town built of cardboard. Rally fans toured the Public Garden ”Ștefan cel Mare” with tricycles consuming solar energy instead of gasoline or diesel.

SUN Dă-i Fest culminated with a live music concert powered by solar energy and held by the bands Heymonnshaker (UK), Alex Calancea&Rupt, AmberTraps, FlashBlood and Miriam.

Source: www.mec.gov.md