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Kharkiv Oblast without electricity again after Russian shelling. Power was cut off to the city and surrounding region when a backup power line failed, according to Deputy Head of the President's Office Kyrylo Tymoshenko. Kharkiv's electricity infrastructure remains under great strain after it was targeted by Russian strikes on the evening of Sept. 11.
9.1.10 Renewables sector news
In 2022, renewable energy producers received UAH 25B.Since the beginning of 2022, the Guaranteed Buyer state enterprise has paid out UAH 24.8B to producers of electricity from renewable sources. According to the company's data, Guaranteed Buyer paid UAH 13.9B for green energy purchased in 2022, UAH 8.5B for 2021, and UAH 2.4B for 2020. Thus, the%age of owed payments made by the Guaranteed Buyer since the beginning of the year is 46.9%. In addition, the state-owned enterprise paid in full for the electricity purchased in January. The lowest level of payments to electricity producers was for May (19%), April (19.2%), and March (20.1%). Since 2022, the Guaranteed Buyer has purchased 6.454mn MWh of green electricity. The largest share, 68%, was solar, with 21% wind, 9% bioenergy, and 2% hydropower.
A second biomethane plant in Ukraine will be connected to the network in 2023. In the first half of 2023, the Regional Gas Company will connect a second biomethane plant with a capacity of 18mn cubic metres of biomethane per year to gas distribution networks in the Vinnytsia region, the company reported. The Yuzef-Mykolaiv Biogas Company’s capacity will be so large that several phases of gas network construction with a length of more than 20 km had to be designed for the connection. According to Oleh Djurik, director of Yuzefo-Mykolaiv Biogas Company, the transition from using biogas for electricity generation to biomethane production is an attractive step from the point of view of investment. The new plant will supply the entire district with biomethane during the year, replacing natural gas. Lately, most factories in Ukraine have used biogas to produce electricity and thermal energy for their own needs. When burning natural gas, about 50% of its energy value is lost, while using biomethane, similar losses amount to about 7-10%.
Ukraine is ready to sell the first batches of biomethane to the EU. The Ukrainian Regional Gas Company, Hals Agro, and the Dutch company STX signed a memorandum of cooperation to sell Ukraine’s first biomethane to Europe, according to an announcement from the RGK. The companies have agreed to facilitate the sale of biomethane through a so-called virtual point of sale (VTP). As a result, a gas that has reached Ukraine’s gas distribution network will be able to be sold to Europe. Currently, all the necessary documents are being prepared, and procedures are being carried out for the first transactions in the EU market. Furthermore, the memorandum creates a basis for selling biomethane to the EU for other gas producers.
Due to war, 90% of the wind energy capacities in Ukraine have been taken out of operation. According to research from REN21, Russia has also destroyed 30% of the solar energy generation capacity in Ukraine. Before the war, Ukraine had achieved the largest increase in solar, and wind energy production among the 17 countries of Central Asia and Southeastern Europe included in the UN study. Ukraine added 8.3 GW of capacity between 2017
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