In 2017 four complexes began producing biogas in Ukraine
In 2017, 4 biogas complexes in the territory of Ukraine were completed and started producing biogas. The total installed capacity amounts to 7.33 MW.
Agriculture and Alternative Energy public group informs on its Facebook page that the biggest of them is the 1st phase of the Ukraine-2001 biogas complex with the capacity of 5.109 MW, which makes it the second in the installed electric capacity after the Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP) complex, which has a capacity of 5,692 MW.
"The most powerful complex in Ukraine today belongs to the agro-industrial holding Astarta-Kiev, which, however, does not produce electricity from the biogas, but only replaces part of the natural gas used in the technological processes. Nevertheless, its potential for electric power, which is 13.9 MW, should be taken into account. In 2017, the company purchased two Caterpillar cogenerators, which are planned to be put into operation in 2018," the message says.
Out of 4 biogas complexes commissioned in 2017, only Theofipol Energy Company managed to get a green tariff before the unexpected suspension of the work of the National Commission for State Regulation in Energy and Utilities.
In 2018, new actively constructed biogas complexes of Ukraine-2001, TH Vimexim, and Gals-Agro with a total capacity of about 18 MW will start operating.
"For various reasons, biogas complexes of cattle-breeding enterprises belonging to Agro-Oven, Elite and Demis Agro did not work in 2017. If we sum up the capacities of all biogas complexes that operated in 2016, then it will be equivalent to 30.3 MW. The capacity of complexes commissioned in 2017 makes up 7.33 MW. The increase in 2017 amounted to 24.2%," the message states.
Chances are that in 2018 the construction of new complexes of the companies Danosha, MHP, Gals-Agro and Agrospetsservice with the total capacity of 17.5 MW will continue, and several new ones will be built.
Earlier it was reported that the official opening of a biogas complex with the capacity of 15.6 MW took place on the territory of the Teofipol sugar plant in Khmelnytsky region.
