Energy of Belarus. The most powerful solar station in Belarus will appear under the speech "We buy more expensive, we sell cheaper. Why solar power plants will not replace nuclear power plants"
Today, in many countries, alternative energy sources are used to power residential buildings and other facilities. In Belarus, a solar battery on the roof of a building is still rare. But soon one of the Minsk educational institutions will switch to 100% use of solar energy. According to Dmitry Mitskevich, the director of Glavenergo, the company responsible for the facility, the new technology will ensure the energy consumption of the entire facility.
Unfortunately, this is only one of three facilities in Belarus that have taken a step towards such an innovation. Clean energy is a great option for houses and cottages that are far from city communications. A person will receive the required amount of electricity regularly, having invested in it only once. And the investment will soon pay off. In countries where sunny days prevail over cloudy ones - in Saudi Arabia, the USA, India - solar power plants have long been operating to supply small towns or settlements.
What prevents Belarusian buildings from using the method of energy supply straight from nature, which has long been mastered in the world, read in the interview.
- How will the new educational institution differ from others?
— Nothing but a noticeable saving of natural resources. In cloudless sunny weather, the station will generate 40 kW of energy, which will supply energy to the entire building. This means that the functioning of lighting, computers, office equipment and other equipment is guaranteed. Even at peak load, the equipment will work smoothly, in addition, the energy released will be in excess. This surplus is for sale. Despite the fact that more than 80% of the total solar energy is produced by the station during the period from April to October, the time of year will not affect the efficiency of the installation.
The constructions used have no analogues in Belarus and were brought from Lithuania. They withstand wind and other environmental loads.
May 28, 2013 is the final touches day for the finished object. On this day, the first inclusion of the energy supply of the building was made under the supervision of specialists, employees of the energy supervision. The building will have a modern look with mirror modules on the roof on both sides.
— Are there many buildings in Minsk that use alternative energy sources?
- Today, at the administrative building of the Luch plant at the exit from the station. m. "Park Chelyuskintsev" is about 5-10 panels, issuing 1-2 kW of energy. This mini-station is intended more for demonstration than for practical purposes.
The second object is located on the roof of the parking lot and at the same time the office of Glavenergo on Melezha Street. Its power is 5 kW. This value is able to make a house of 200 sq.m. autonomous, that is, to ensure the operation of the equipment that each of us is used to.
The remaining small modules that can be seen in Minsk are autonomous illumination of traffic lights, signs at pedestrian crossings and other small objects.
— Why are alternative energy sources still not being spread in Belarus?
— The process of installation, design, installation and connection of a solar power plant is a long, strictly recorded process. In order to locate an ordinary station in one of the buildings in Minsk, it is necessary to go through many approval stages.
First, get the architect's permission to ensure that the object fits into the architectural ensemble. After that, get permission from the owner of the building to connect the station. Then ask the executive committee for permission to design and exacting work. Next, you need to prepare a project for the future station. This can be done by a professional electrician. The next stage is the development of structures on which the batteries will be securely fastened. After the documentation is provided to local power grid operators, technical conditions for connection are issued.
In short, the procedure is so long that there is no desire to deal with this innovative energy source. At this stage, relevance ends.
The unpopularity of alternative energy is supported by the amount that must be spent on connecting the station. As a result, it turns out that it is easier for people to use electricity, which we have in Belarus is relatively cheap, because the user pays the state only a third of the cost of energy consumed. We hope that the process will not stand still. In the Gomel region, 5 sites are already being prepared for the installation of solar stations, there are also plans in the Mogilev region. This is very rare across the country.
“But in Europe, even ordinary homeowners have taken the trend to install solar panels for personal use. And successfully.
Everything is simple in Europe. Helps the principle of one window. The customer is only required to submit the relevant documents for consideration. After that, either permission or refusal is issued. Immediately after that, please proceed with the installation of the station. In Europe, a program for the development of alternative energy has long been adopted. The principle is that the state dates part of the cost of using solar energy from the state budget. (energy is consumed and used only during the day) - about $ 11 thousand. Standard kit - 20 modules, a set of cables, a set of fasteners, an inverter, controllers, discharge accumulators. Everything compactly fits into the conveyor and is mounted within 2-3 days.
— What does the ideal house of the future look like in your opinion?
— A house with a solar station with a capacity of 5 kW and a wind station with a capacity of 5 kW on the roof. This is all that is necessary for a comfortable life and the use of all the devices and benefits of mankind available at home.
Ecology of consumption. Science and technology: The Belarusian mobile operator has built the largest solar park in the country with an area equal to 60 football fields and a total capacity sufficient to provide lighting for the entire Minsk.
The Belarusian mobile operator has built the largest solar park in the country with an area equal to 60 football fields and a total capacity sufficient to provide lighting for the entire Minsk.
The project was implemented near Bragin and serves as an example of alternative development of the territories affected by the Chernobyl disaster.
The volume of investments in the project amounted to 24 million euros. According to the company, this is both a long-term project in a promising market and a contribution to the preservation of the environment.
“The construction of a solar park in Bragin is an important project not only for velcom, but for the country as a whole. The republic not only becomes more energy independent, but also gets the opportunity to reduce the damage caused to the environment, - said Vyacheslav Smirnov, head of the corporate communications department at velcom. – It is also important that thanks to the project there is a revival of the territories that suffered from the Chernobyl disaster and are now considered unsuitable for doing business. The example of the Solar Park proves that unique projects can be implemented in such regions as well.”
The solar power plant will increase the energy security of Belarus by reducing its dependence on hydrocarbon raw materials. Each hour of the park's operation will allow the country to save from 7,000 cubic meters of natural gas.
The solar power plant in Bragin was built ahead of schedule. The project was completed 4 months earlier. It was no coincidence that they were in a hurry - so that the power plant would "catch" as many sunny summer days as possible.
The power plant occupies an area of more than 41 hectares, and its nominal capacity reaches a record 18.48 MW for Belarusian solar plants.
The park consists of 85,000 solar panels that convert solar radiation into direct current electricity. After that, it enters 617 inverters with a voltage of 0.4 kV, which convert it into alternating current. With the help of 10 transformer substations, the voltage is increased to 20 kV. In turn, a powerful transformer brings it up to 110 kV - the level that is necessary for the transmission of electricity to a single network.
To interconnect all panels and equipment, more than 730 km of cables have been laid in the solar park, which together exceeds the distance from Minsk to Moscow. The company also built a 4.5 km high-voltage transmission line with 22 towers and a transformer. This made it possible to connect the solar power plant with the Bragin substation.
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The solar park should breathe life into the territories affected by the Chernobyl accident and become an example of how polluted land can be used for commercial activities and benefit the local economy. Local contractors will be involved in the operational maintenance of the park.
It is planned that local contractors will be involved in the operational maintenance of the Chernobyl solar power plant.
Recall, earlier it was reported that the Ukrainian government also intends to use the Chernobyl exclusion zone as an industrial hub for the production of renewable energy. In particular, it is planned to build a giant solar farm with a capacity of 1.4 GW on its territory. An active search for foreign and domestic investors is currently underway to implement the project. published
Energy industry of Belarus- one of the main sectors of the economy of the Republic of Belarus and is its most important structural component. The fuel and energy complex (FEC) ensures the functioning of all its branches and sustainable socio-economic development of the country. The fuel and energy complex of Belarus includes systems for the extraction, transport, storage, production and distribution of the main types of energy carriers: natural gas, oil and its products, solid fuels, electrical and thermal energy. The development of the industry is determined by the concept of energy security and increasing the energy independence of the country. Its implementation is ensured by a number of state programs for the development of alternative sources of nuclear and renewable energy, increasing the efficiency of the use of fuel and energy resources.
The role of the complex in the country's economy is determined by the following parameters: it produces 24% of the country's industrial output, develops a quarter of all investments in the fixed capital of industry, 22.8% of industrial and production fixed assets are concentrated in it, 5.3% of industrial and production personnel are employed.
In the fuel and energy complex of Belarus, there are:
- fuel industry (oil, gas, peat);
- electric power industry.
The fuel and energy complex has a developed industrial infrastructure, including a network of oil and gas pipelines, including main ones, as well as high-voltage power lines.
The government body that forms and implements the energy policy of the country is the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Belarus.
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The largest main oil and gas pipelines passing through the territory of Belarus
Extraction of combustible minerals
oilThe maximum level of annual oil production reached in 1975 amounted to 7953.600 thousand tons. The main volume of production was obtained from the largest fields: Rechitskoye, Ostashkovichskoye, Vishanskoye, Tishkovskoye, Yuzhno-Ostashkovichskoye. Since 1976, oil production has been declining, and in 1997 it reached a level of 1.822 million tons. The determining factor for the decline was the deterioration in the structure of oil reserves, since the main fields entered the final stage of development. Replenishment of the resource base was carried out mainly due to the discovery of small deposits with hard-to-recover reserves. Since 1997, the process of falling oil production has been suspended, with its subsequent stabilization in 1999-2017. at the level of 1.6-1.8 million tons.
In total, there are 82 oil fields located in the tectonic zone of the Pripyat trough (78 in the Gomel region and 4 in the Mogilev region). In 2015, 59 fields were exploited, while the rest were explored or were mothballed.
Balance oil reserves: 61 million tons (2005), 47.1 million tons (2015). Half of the reserves are hard to recover. At the moment, work has begun on the search for oil fields in the southern part of the Pripyat trough.
In order to sell petroleum products in May 2007, the Belarusian Oil Company was established.
Natural gas
Currently, Belarus does not have commercial deposits of natural gas. Associated gas is produced during the development of oil fields.
Peat
The main consumer of gas in Belarus is the electric power industry, whose share in the structure of gas consumption reaches up to 73%. 10% of gas is consumed in industry, another 7% is used as petrochemical feedstock. Gas consumption by the population and the household sector is 7% of the gross gas consumption in Belarus. Up to 3% of gas is used as motor fuel. The share of agriculture in the structure of gas consumption is insignificant - 0.3%.
Belarus is an important hub for the transit of Russian gas to Poland and the countries of Western Europe (about 70% of transit volumes), Ukraine, Lithuania and the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation.
The transit of Russian natural gas through the territory of Belarus is provided through the following main gas pipelines:
- Yamal - Europe (diameter - 1420 mm);
- Torzhok - Minsk - Ivatsevichi (3x1220 mm);
- Kobrin - Brest - State border (1020 mm);
- Minsk - Vilnius (1220 mm);
- Ivatsevichi - Valley (2x1220 mm);
- Torzhok - Valley (1420 mm);
- Volkovysk - State border (273 mm).
On the territory of Belarus there are 3 underground gas storage facilities (UGS) with a total active gas capacity of about 1.28 billion cubic meters [ ] :
- Pribugskoye (0.6 billion cubic meters);
- Osipovichskoye (0.36 bcm);
- Mozyr (0.315 billion cubic meters).
Peat industry
The peat industry produces peat for fuel, agriculture, chemical processing, and is engaged in the production of peat briquettes.
Currently, the peat industry is represented by 37 enterprises that extract and process peat, it is used primarily in the domestic sector. The main types of products are: peat briquettes, lump peat and sphagnum peat. The operating reserves of peat at the raw material bases of enterprises amount to 142.5 million tons, including 100 million tons of peat suitable for briquetting.
Power industry
Power lines 220, 330 and 750 kV on the territory of the Republic of Belarus
The electric power industry generates, transmits and distributes electrical and thermal energy. It accounts for 7.3% of the gross industrial output, 15.9% of the main industrial and production assets.
In 1889, the first power plant was launched on the territory of the modern Republic of Belarus - at the Dobrush paper mill, in 1894 the first power plant was opened in Minsk, in 1898 - in Vitebsk. By 1913, there were 11 power plants in the Belarusian provinces with a total capacity of 5.3 MW and an annual electricity generation of 3 million kWh. Local peat and imported coal served as fuel for power plants. In 1927-1930, the Belorusskaya State District Power Plant (Orsha district of the modern Vitebsk region) with a capacity of 10 MW was built. Another major power plant was the Minsk CHPP-2. By 1940, the total capacity of BSSR power plants, operating mainly on peat, was 128.8 MW with an annual output of 508 million kWh of electricity. In the 1950s - 1970s, many power plants were built, the largest of which are Lukomskaya (Lukomlskaya) GRES, Berezovskaya GRES, Minsk CHPP-3 and CHPP-4, Gomel CHPP-2, in the 1980s the construction of the Minsk nuclear power plant began. Thermal power plant, the design of the Belarusian nuclear power plant began. As of January 1, 1991, the installed capacity of BSSR power plants amounted to 6939.3 MW (more than 99% at thermal power plants). In 1985, peat and coal combustion was stopped at large power plants, power plants were switched to the use of fuel oil and natural gas. In 1992-1994, new power units were put into operation at Minsk CHPP-4 and Gomel CHPP-2, in 1999 Minsk CHPP-5 was launched at the site of the nuclear CHP.
The modern electric power industry of Belarus is a constantly developing highly automated complex, united by a common mode of operation and a single centralized dispatch control. The production potential of the Belarusian energy system is represented by 22 large power plants, 25 regional boiler houses, includes almost 7 thousand km of backbone and about 250 thousand km of high voltage distribution lines and more than 2 thousand km of heating networks. That is, the electric power industry is represented by a whole system of devices: from the most complex power plants to switch cabinets ShR 11. According to Belenergo, the installed capacity of power plants amounted to 9.1 million kW in 2018. The basis of the electric power industry in Belarus is thermal power plants, they generate 99.9% of all electricity. Among thermal power plants, condensing (GRES) and combined heat and power plants (CHP) are distinguished. Their share in the total installed capacity is 43.7% and 56.3%, respectively.
The largest power plant in Belarus - Lukomlskaya GRES, with a capacity of 2560 MW, generates more than 40% of all electricity using natural gas and heating oil. Berezovskaya GRES (installed capacity - 930 MW) should be included among the largest power plants.
Among the combined heat and power plants with installed capacity for the generation of electrical energy, the following stand out: Minsk CHPP-4 (1030 MW), CHPP-3 (420 MW). CHPP-5 (330 MW). Gomel CHPP-2 (540 MW), Mogilev CHPP-2 (345 MW), Novopolotsk CHPP (505 MW), Svetlogorsk CHPP (260 MW). Mozyr CHPP (195 MW), Bobruisk CHPP-2 (180 MW). Combined heat and power plants and regional boiler houses produce about 60% of heat energy. There are also several thousand small power plants that have low technical and economic characteristics, have a negative impact on the environment, and take a significant amount of labor resources.
Over 50 hydroelectric power plants of small and medium capacity were built in different periods on the territory of Belarus, including Vitebsk HPP (40 MW), Polotsk HPP (21.66 MW), Grodno HPP (17 MW), Osipovichskaya HPP (2.2 MW). ), Chigirinskaya HPP (1.5 MW).
In the 1980s, a nuclear thermal power plant was being built near Minsk, but after the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the unfinished construction site was converted into a thermal power plant. In 2011, construction began on the Belarusian nuclear power plant in the north-west of the country in the Ostrovets district of the Grodno region. The nuclear power plant will consist of two power units with a total capacity of up to 2400 (2x1194) MW. The Russian project "AES-2006" with water-cooled power reactors (VVER) of the "3+" generation was selected. The first power unit is planned to be put into operation in 2019, the second - in 2020.
In the 2000s, the state began to attract foreign loans for the development of the energy sector. On November 25, 2011, an agreement was signed between the Government of the Republic of Belarus and the Government of the Russian Federation on the construction of the Belarusian NPP. Another 6 loans of two types (for the implementation of an investment project and for the provision of a preferential consumer - "related" - loan) were taken by the state from the Export-Import Bank of China and the State Development Bank of China: for the reconstruction of Minsk CHP-2 (2007), for the completion Minsk CHPP-5 (2009), for the construction of a CCGT-400 MW at Lukomlskaya GRES and Berezovskaya GRES (both in 2010), for the construction of power transmission lines of the Belarusian NPP (2013), for the reconstruction of the Minsk-Severnaya substation (2015 year) .
An intergovernmental agreement with Russia on the construction of the Belarusian nuclear power plant was concluded in the amount of 10 billion dollars. The repayment of the loan will begin six months after the commissioning of the nuclear power plant and will be carried out in dollars until 2035 in equal installments every six months. Half of the used part of the loan is charged 5.23% per annum, the second - a floating rate LIBOR (about 1% or less) + 1.83% per annum. Annual payments on this loan in 2021-2035 are estimated at $1 billion.
The largest power plants
Renewable sources
According to the Law of the Republic of Belarus "On Renewable Energy Sources", electricity from renewable sources is purchased by state energy supply organizations in the first 10 years of operation of such power plants with increasing coefficients (in 2016 - 28-52 kopecks per 1 kWh with an average production cost of 1 kW h at Belenergo power plants at 9.8 kopecks). In 2015, by a presidential decree and a resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus, quotas were established for the installed capacity of alternative energy sources; at the same time, the share of renewable sources is planned to be 6% by 2020.
hydroelectric power station
In 2010, 45 million kWh out of 34.9 billion kWh was produced at HPPs, after the commissioning of the Grodno HPP, electricity generation at hydroelectric power plants in 2016 reached 142 million kWh.
The technical hydro potential of the republic is estimated at 2.5 billion kWh / year, it is being implemented at more than 50 small hydroelectric power plants with an installed capacity of 95.8 MW (2017). The total electric power potential of all the rivers of Belarus is estimated at 900 MW.
The largest hydroelectric power plant - Vitebsk (40 MW, 138 million kWh) was commissioned in 2017.
In May 2011, the first in the country and the highest wind power plant in the CIS (2 km from Novogrudok) with a capacity of 1.5 MW was launched. It is expected to generate about 3.8 million kWh of electricity per year (to meet the household needs of the population of the district center).
In 2017, there were about 47 facilities in the country that operate wind turbines with a total installed capacity of 84 MW. Until 2020, wind farms are expected to be commissioned in Smorgon (15 MW), Oshmyansky (25 MW), Lioznensky (50 MW) and Dzerzhinsky (160 MW) districts.
Solar power plants
In 2013, 0.4 million kWh was produced at solar power plants, in 2016 it reached 28 million kWh.
August 2015 - construction of a solar power plant with a capacity of 1.26 MW was completed in the village of Rozhanka, Shchuchinsky district. In 2016, another FEZ with a capacity of 2.5 MW was launched in the Shchuchyn region [A solar power plant with a capacity of 2.5 MW was opened in Shchuchyn]
solar power plant with a capacity of 5.7 MW in the Myadel region.
Summer 2016 - a solar power plant with a capacity of up to 18.48 MW was put into operation in the Bragin district.
In October 2017, a solar power plant with a capacity of 55 MW was opened in the Rechitsa district.
A solar power plant with a capacity of 17 MW is under construction in Smorgon. The first stage was commissioned in February 2017 [
A solar power plant in the Myadel district intends to continue developing alternative energy sources in Belarus. The company's immediate plans include the construction of about 25 biogas plants.
A solar power plant with a capacity of 5.8 megawatts (MW) was built this spring near the village of Rudoshany of the Naroch village council on the site of an abandoned quarry and landfill. Investments amounted to 10.6 million dollars. “50% are own funds, 50% are EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) resources received through Belgazprombank,” a representative of Modus Energija told TUT.BY.
The station is located on an area of 14 hectares, equipped with 22.6 thousand solar modules. The duration of operation of the power plant in accordance with the business plan is more than 25 years.
All electrical energy will be supplied to the Belarusian energy networks. Taking into account the purchase prices stipulated in the law of Belarus on renewable energy sources, investors hope that the solar power plant will pay for itself in 7 years.
The new station can produce 6.27 million kWh of electricity annually, enough to supply about 3,000 households for this period.
“This is the largest solar power plant not only in Belarus, but also in the region - it is more powerful than any power plant in Lithuania, other Baltic countries or Poland. At the same time, this is Modus energija's largest project abroad,” said the head of Modus energija, Mykola Martyniuk, in a press release.
“Why did you invest in solar energy in the Myadel district in the Minsk region? This is the most active area for attracting investments,” Modus energija notes. In negotiations with the Belarusian authorities " there were no big problems, everything was solved in working order».
In Belarus and other countries, Modus energija has equipped more than one "green" power plant - their total capacity is more than 20 MW. The future plans of the company include development on the scale of the European region. Modus energija received 755.9 thousand euros of net consolidated profit last year, which is 1.9 times more than a year ago (394.7 thousand euros). Revenues Modus energija last year decreased by 9% - up to 7.074 million euros.
At the same time, representatives of Modus Energija hope that the solar power plant will not be the only investment in Belarus in the field of renewable energy. The company is currently working on a biogas project. Modus energija plans to build a network of biogas plants with a total capacity of 25 MW.
Investments in this project are estimated at 100 million euros. The international financial institutions EBRD and IFC are ready to support it with loans. Plus, a Belarusian bank and Modus group can provide financing, Modus energija said.
Where will the installations be located? " All over Belarus”, they say in Modus energija. It is already known about three farms ("Fatherland" - Pruzhany district, "Parokhonskoye" - Pinsk district and "Vasilishki" - Shchuchinsky district), which are part of the "Machulishchi" Agrocombinat by the manager of the President of Belarus. During 2017-2018, eight units will be built on their territory, and the installed capacity will be 8 MW. Payback is estimated " at 7-8 years old».
The Lithuanian company has already registered two subsidiaries in Belarus - CJSC Kobylovka Biogas and CJSC Parokhonskoye Biogas. By a resolution of the Council of Ministers, they are included in the list of legal entities that have the rights to create installations for the use of renewable energy sources within the allocated quotas. This means that enterprises will be able to sell the generated electricity to the country's general power grid at the so-called "green" tariff. Relative to the Lithuanian investor, the size of the coefficient to the tariff for industrial enterprises will be 1.25. Kobylovka Biogas intends to commission the first 1MW biogas plant as early as next year. The completion date for another five units of the same capacity in the Brest region is 2018.
According to Vecherny Brest, the Lithuanian company undertakes to give Fatherland and Parokhonsky, on whose livestock waste biogas plants will operate, 15% of the proceeds from the sale of generated electricity. The committee on agriculture and food of the regional executive committee calls such conditions "ideal" - provided that they are met.
Modus energija is one of the divisions of the diversified Modus grupė, present on the Belarusian market in several sectors. Firstly, the company is a supplier of BMW and Mini, the Belarusian business includes the companies Autoidea (import) and Unimodus (car center). Secondly, through ModusPark, the Lithuanian investor is developing a network of paid parking lots. Its owner is Kestutis Martinkenas, who in 2015 ranked 28th in the list of the largest Lithuanian businessmen with a fortune of 71 million euros.
Next year, the most powerful solar station in Belarus will start operating near Rechitsa.
Since the autumn of this year, the construction of the photovoltaic plant has been carried out by the state production association Belorusneft.
Photo by the press service of Belorusneft
For the implementation of the project, two plots of land were allocated in the Rechitsa district with a total area of 110 hectares. 218,430 solar panels will be installed here.
“On average, 1.5-2 thousand panels are mounted per day”, - reported Naviny. by in GPO Belorusneft.
The equipment supplier is the Slovenian company Bisol Group. It is a manufacturer of premium photovoltaic modules and mounting systems and offers a full range of solar energy solutions in more than 55 countries.
The installed capacity of the photovoltaic plant near Rechitsa will be 57.8 MW.
“It will be the most powerful solar station in Belarus”, - say in the State Production Association "Belorusneft".
Currently located near Bragin. Its nominal power reaches 18.48 MW. The solar station was built by velcom. It covers an area of over 41 hectares. 24 million euros have been invested in the implementation of the project.
The total investment in the implementation of the project near Rechitsa will be about 65 million euros. As explained in the State Production Association "Belorusneft", borrowed funds were attracted for the purchase of equipment, and own resources were used for construction and installation work.
The construction of the photovoltaic plant is planned to be completed in May 2017. Since December 2014, a photovoltaic plant with a capacity of 3.75 MW, built by Belorusneft, has already been operating on the territory of the Belarusian Gas Processing Plant in Rechitsa.
Photovoltaic station on the territory of the Belarusian gas processing plant. Photo by the press service of Belorusneft
In total, 31 solar stations operate in Belarus with a total capacity of 41 MW. According to the state program "Energy Saving", Belarus plans to build at least 250 MW of solar power plants by 2020.
The share of green energy will grow
According to the Executive Director of the Renewable Energy Association Vladimir Nistuk, the development of renewable energy sources (RES) in Belarus is irreversible.
“Some say that a nuclear power plant will be launched and you can forget that there is renewable energy. But we must constantly remember that renewable energy is not only a contribution to the energy security of the country, but it is also a contribution to the economic and environmental security of the country. Therefore, no matter what anyone says, the process of developing renewable energy in the country is irreversible,” Nistyuk said.
He recalled that at the time of the appearance of Presidential Directive No. 3 "On priority areas for strengthening the economic security of the state" dated June 14, 2007, a couple of dozen hydroelectric power stations and only two wind turbines were operating in Belarus.
“Today, the numbers show that renewable energy has stepped forward by leaps and bounds,”- said Nistyuk.
According to him, there are more than 3.8 thousand facilities in Belarus with an installed capacity of over 6.2 thousand MW, which produce electricity and heat from renewable energy sources. Including: 31 solar stations, 17 biogas plants, 66 wind power plants, etc.
“This suggests that everything is working in the country today. And most importantly, additional quotas have been allocated, and according to the calculations of state bodies, by 2020 we will reach another 900 MW of installed capacity without mini-CHPs and wood-fired boilers,”- said the executive director of the Renewable Energy Association.
By the beginning of this year, the share of RES in the gross consumption of fuel and energy resources in Belarus amounted to 5.5%. In the total balance of RES, firewood accounts for 54.1%, fuel chips - 25.5%, wood waste - 13.1%, water energy - 1.7%, wind energy - 0.6%. By 2020, the share of RES in the gross consumption of fuel and energy resources is planned to increase to 6%.
