The construction of power plants consuming renewable energy sources allowed a considerable cut in natural gas consumption in Crimea, the press service of the Council of Ministers of Crimea has reported.
“In 2012, solar and wind power plants generated 350 million
kilowatt-hours of electricity in Crimea. This allowed a reduction in
natural gas consumption of 80 million cubic meters,” the press service
said, citing the chairman of the republican committee for fuel, energy
and innovation policy, Serhiy Kolobov, as saying.
The report says that not only solar and wind power plants are being
built in Crimea, but that bio-energy is also being developed.
“Around one million tonnes of grain and oilseeds is produced in
Crimea. The need of agriculture for straw is up to 600,000 tonnes. Thus,
the use of solid biofuel to replace natural gas will allow the saving
of around 78.7 million cubic meters of gas,” the council of ministers
said.
The switch to ecologically friendly ways of power generation for Crimea as a recreation region is very important.
As reported, the total capacity of renewable energy facilities in Crimea exceeds 290 MW.
Activ Solar international group has built four large solar power
plants in Crimea: Perove (105.56 MW), Okhotnykove (82.65 MW), Mitiayeve
(31.55 MW) and Rodnykove (7.5 MW).
The group of companies Wind Farms of Ukraine has built first modern
wind power plant, Kerch (25 MW) in Crimea, and it is building the
Prysyvashsky Wind Farm (the first phase of 25 MW). Several older wind
power plants, which were built in the 1990s, are operating in Crimea.
In the past two years, alternative energy in Ukraine has been
developing more intensively than traditional power generation. As of
early June, 96 companies operated 149 power plants consuming alternative
energy, including 50 photovoltaic plants.
