Economical and ecological aspects of bioenergy projects in Ukraine
A.V. Epik, S.M. Chaplygin, E.N. Oleynik. CYSENI 2011, May 26–27, Kaunas, Lithuania
The work is dedicated to the investigation of the most applicable biomass-to-energy technologies for heat and power production under Ukrainian circumstances. Each technology is ranked by the separately determined applicability factors. Total potential of renewable energy sources over Ukraine is used with aim of limitation and proper distribution of the individual projects implementation under local conditions. The work includes a complex analysis of factors for each biomass utilization technology. The principal ranking factors are: technological availability (commercialization rate), access to the state support, legislative and economical incentives, legislative peculiarities (namely, for “green” tariff receiving, sector of implementation, etc.), greenhouse gases emission reductions input, quantity of already realized projects, positive socio-economic factors. Performed economical analysis result in the determination of number of most priority directions of biomass technologies implementation for Ukrainian energy sector. The brief analysis of peculiarities of biomass as a fuel has been performed with aim to find out key barriers and bottlenecks on the way of biomass
utilization in already operated equipment. The electricity production from biomass has been briefly overviewed with the conclusion of total feasibility of electricity production from raw biomass. As a result the recommendations for acceleration of bioenergy projects realization has been proposed in form of political moves and private initiatives.
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