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Wind Energy, Ukraine |
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By Gunnar Boye Olesen, OVE, INforSE - Europe |
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There is great potential for windpower energy in Ukraine. If, for instance, the 2,700 sq.km. of shallow waters in the Black and Asovsk Seas were used for windturbines, this would cover the entire electricity consumption of Ukraine. After the Chernobyl accident, several attempts were made to develop windturbines in Ukraine. The most successful has been the joint venture Windenergo. It was created as a collaboration of a number of former military companies that have the necessary manufacturing facilities and a USA-based company, Kennetec Windpower. Their first type of windturbine is a 107-kW turbine, of which three started their operation in May 1993. Now 60 of these turbines are running near Donuzlav Bay in Cremea. A new model of windturbine has been developed with a capacity of 250 kW. Three turbines of this type are now in operation. Beside the Ukrainian windturbines, the Windenergo produces parts for Kennetec windturbines operating in the USA, which is partly financing the involvement of Kennetec. The price for each turbine was initially $23,000 US, well below world market price. Now the price is $50,000 US, which is close to world market price. The price increase is due to higher overhead costs of the companies because of a decreased of other production. Increased competition and restructuring are expected to bring prices down again. The wind-electricity is produced at 2.0 US cents/kWh and sold for 2.4 US cents/kWh to the power company. The consumer price is 3.1 US cents/kWh. In 1994, the government of Ukraine created a fund for construction of windturbines. The initial goal was to finance 100 MW of windturbines. Since then, the decision has been made to support additional development using part of the national tariff on electricity. Thus, 0.5% of consumer electricity payments, equal to $15 million US annually, will be allocated to the fund. The official Ukrainian energy plan includes the installation of 2000 MW windturbines by the year 2010. This will cover 10% of the Ukrainian demand for electricity. The above article is based on information from Prof. Boris Koropko of the Institute of Nontraditional Energy, Kiev, Ukraine, and on the article, "Using Wind Energy in a New Way", Ukrainian Business Journal 8/95, by Director Lev Dulnev, Windenergo Ltd. |
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