In 2015 Ukraine will challenge the energy problem with Czech partners’ help
Czech researchers shared with a group of Ukrainian journalists their experience in alternative methods of power supply.
Within the framework of the project organized by Europeum Prague Institute for Pro-European Policy and Internews-Ukraine, an international public organization a number of Ukrainian journalists managed to study the working process of the Czech power-generated enterprises.
This program was about to start back in 2002 but at the initial stage the government support was limited by the regulatory acts. However in 2005 Czech government passed the law which declared that the part of energy power produced from renewable energy sources should be of 8% and 13,5% by 2020. In 2013 according to the new amendments to this law, all the government support to renewable energy sources production must be stopped except the small hydroelectric power stations.
Now 480 renewable energy power plants with total carpacity of 373 MW keep running in Czech Republic. It gave the country an opportunity to settle the fifth place in EU in power output.
Such an energy power plant was built in a small town of Kněžice .
As a result of this project the town gets the energy power supply entirely from the renewable energy sources.
This plant includes 3 units running in straw, wood production waste and biogas produced from pig manure. Then production wastes are sold to the local agricultural enterprises as a fertilizer.
Constructing similar plants in Ukraine could afford small towns entirely convert to energy power supply from alternative energy power sources.