BIOMASS
Biomass is renewable organic material that comes from plants and animals. Biomass can be burned directly for heat or converted to liquid and gaseous fuels through various processes. Given Ukraine’s unique climate and natural resources, biomass represents a strong market opportunity for the country from the viewpoints of energy security, energy generation, and integration into the biomass supply chain.
Climate change is real.
In Ukraine
Demand for biomass-to-energy initiatives has been growing in Ukraine, being driven by the motivation of cost savings and increased efficiency. In the short term, the share of heat suppliers using biomass boilers could grow up to 63% of all the surveyed players. Despite the expanding share of municipal heat suppliers using biomass boilers in the total number of companies, the share of biomass in the overall volume of fuel consumed by the surveyed entities remains low (14%). The most common fuel is natural gas, with a share of 80% in the total volume of fuel used by municipal heat suppliers.
In Ukraine, companies with access to biomass tend to choose the option of electricity, not heat for a number of number of reasons:
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First, selling electricity at the Day Ahead Market (DAM) is more profitable compared to selling heat.
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Second, places where biogas is collected (such as animal farms or solid waste landfills) are located far from residential areas and the transportation of heat is usually inefficient and expensive. In some cases, co-generation is considered, when electricity is sold to the national grid, with heat being used internally.
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PROJECTS
Biomass
Power Plant
Investment project for construction of a Biomass Power Plant as part of a future Industrial park. Biomass plant will burn Miscanthus (own plantations) and wood chips (obtained by clearing of self-forested lands ahead of Miscanthus planting) 21 thsd.t/year
Electricity will be sold via a trader at the Day Ahead Market Starting year 2 of the operation, heat will be extracted to be sold to neighboring businesses
MAIN Characteristics
Capacity
2 MW.el, 14 767 MWh electricity/year.
Biomass plant will burn Miscanthus (own plantations) and wood chips (obtained by clearing of self-forested lands ahead of Miscanthus planting) 21 thsd.t/year.
Technology
Used biomass power plant built in 2008 in UK,
consisting of 1 x Biomass Boiler with 1 x Condensing Steam Turbine-Generator package & Water-Cooled Condenser, with all supporting fuel feed/handling, flue gas treatment, water treatment and auxiliary equipment.
Market Strategy
Electricity will be sold via a trader at the Day Ahead Market. Starting year 2 of the operation, heat will be extracted to be sold to neighboring businesses.
Bioenergy
Miscanthus
Miscanthus giganteus is cultivated on degraded lands (avoiding competition with agriculture) and its crops can be used as feedstock both for CHP and cellulose production.
This investment project combines energy farming, bioenergy production and pulp and paper manufacture, resulting in supply of energy crop, power & heat, cellulose, sodium lignosulfonate and organic fertilizers within the cluster, as well as reduction of CO2 emissions.
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Giganteus
Miscanthus × giganteus is a perennial grass, which automatically grows back after harvest. Due to its ability to grow on marginal land, its water efficiency, low fertilizer needs, carbon sequestration, high yields and soil enhancing qualities, it is considered to be “ideal” energy crop and to
provide negative emissions.
MAIN Characteristics
Current Status
First 60ha of Miscanthus plantation were planted in Spring 2023. 10ha plot of industrial designation is available for the CHP and cellulose plant (grid connections: 10kV cable line, gas pipe of medium pressure, a capped well, two water reservoirs near the plot). Feasibility studies for CHP and cellulose plant are under way. EPC-contractors and executive parties are being selected.
A 50ha nursery plantation of Miscanthus will be planted in Spring 2024 for future propagation of the planting material and establishment of a 1500ha commercial plantation.
Impact
The project reduces CO2 emissions, improves ecology of marginal soils, creates much needed jobs for the local community, provides tax payments to the local budget, replaces considerable imports of cellulose in Ukraine, provides raw materials for numerous industries and agriculture.
Market Strategy
Miscanthus giganteus is cultivated on degraded lands (avoiding competition with
agriculture) and its crops can be used as feedstock both for CHP and cellulose
production.
Biomass plant will burn Miscanthus and wood chips (obtained by clearing of self-forested lands ahead of Miscanthus planting) and generate power and heat, supplying both to the cellulose plant and feeding excess electricity to the local grid.
