You're reading: Crimea saves 90.5 m cubic meters of gas in 2012 thanks to consuming renewable energy

The use of wind and solar power for the production of electricity allowed Crimea to cut gas burned to generate electricity by 90.5 million cubic meters in 2012, according to a macroeconomic survey prepared by the Economic Development and Trade Ministry of Crimea and presented at a meeting of the Council of Ministers of Crimea on August 13, 2013.

The building of power plants consuming renewable energy also
partially solved a problem of a shortage of electricity in Crimea, reads
the document. Solar and wind power plants generated 175 million
kilowatt-hours of electricity in the first half of 2013 – around one
third of the electricity produced by the peninsula.

According to the ministry, by the end of the year the number of solar
power plants in Crimea will grow from four to six, and their total
installed capacity will expand from present 227.3 MW to 427 MW, while
the number of wind power plants will increase from seven to eight, and
their capacity – from 68.2 MW to 108.2 MW.

Over the last few years, alternative energy in Ukraine has been
developing more intensively than conventional energy, which helps
invigorate the diversification of the country’s energy resources, as
well as enhance its energy security and environmental safety.