The Regional Development Agency of the Kyiv region and involved industry experts investigated the potential of biogas production in the Kyiv region and developed the "Plan for the development of the biogas industry of the Kyiv region and pre-feasibility study of one biogas project".
The developers have placed these documents for public review at the link.
They contain:
- map-plan of existing and possible biogas projects in the region;
- analysis of the development potential of the biogas industry;
- 7 concepts of biogas projects for communities of the region;
- a detailed preliminary feasibility study (pre-feasibility study) of a biogas project for one of these 7 concepts.
Currently, there are already 6 commissioned biogas plants in the region: 4 of them are operational, two are temporarily not working.
The researchers showed the structure of the main sources of biomass for biogas production in the districts of the Kyiv region with the help of a diagram:
Source: "Development plan of biogas industry of Kyiv region".
According to the results of the calculations, the forecast potential of biogas production in 7 districts of the Kyiv region is about 525 million cubic meters. m per year. Among territorial communities of the region, Bilotserkivska TG has the highest potential for biogas production from biomass – 291 million cubic meters. m, the lowest – in the TG of Fastiv district (6.1 million cubic meters) and Vyshgorod district (1.2 million cubic meters).
Experts who worked on the project analyzed 7 concepts of investment projects. They are options for forming mixes of different types of biomass and final products. According to the researchers' calculations, only three of them have economic feasibility. For them, experts recommended developing a feasibility study:
- Biogas plant using its own raw materials with a biogas production volume of 6.5 million m³/year and a cost of about €7 million. Biomass sources are cattle manure, corn for silage, whey, intermediate crops; the final product is biomethane.
- Biogas plant based on meat processing plant waste with a biogas production volume of 5.8 million m³/year and a cost of about €7.2 million. Sources of biomass are corn silage, intermediate crop silage, slaughterhouse effluents, flotation sludge; the final product is biomethane.
- Biogas plant on the basis of a sugar factory with a biogas production volume of 6.6 million m³/year and a cost of about €7.4 million. Biomass sources are cattle manure, solid beet pulp, straw, molasses; the final product is biomethane.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that June 18 Verkhovna Rada accepted based on government draft law No. 9597, which provides for the creation of a register of installations that operate on biofuel.
