Russia still has the lowest rate of energy efficiency among all European countries, according to experts and has seen little recent progress. Potential savings on pumping equipment alone could reduce total energy consumption by up to 20% and save billions of dollars. But general inertia and a lack of expertise are conspiring against improvements. Here we examine the situation and investigate what is being done to improve it. The housing sector, heating and the use of pumps for public utility are the "black hole" of the energy sector in Russia in the opinion of the market players. This is primarily connected with out of date practices and ineffieciecny in the Russian housing sector. Also Russian authorities are usually not willing to admit to the problem of high energy bills and do not see any reason to modernise. This is compounded by a lack of energy specialists in the country's housing sector.
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