Renewable Energy – Solutions for application in the communal energy infrastructure

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Belarus: Electricity and district heating from woodchip
The plant has reduced heat generation costs by 20 per cent by using wood chips.
The short-rotation plantation (SRP) Kommunalnik
Kalinkowitschskiy has been using woodchips to generate
district heating and electricity in the small town
of Kalinkowitschi in the south of Belarus since 2018. In
total, the local heating plant provides 56.5 megawatts
of district heating capacity. Of this, 10 megawatts come
from a woodchip boiler from the Lithuanian manufacturer
Enerstena. In addition, three natural gas boilers
are used for hot water. Another woodchip boiler
with 6.5 megawatts of thermal output was combined
with a turbo generator from Siemens to form what is
known as cogeneration or combined heat and power
(CHP), which now supplies 1.39 megawatts of electrical
output. In this way, it was possible to reduce heat
generation costs by 20 per cent. The heating plant has
created jobs for 30 people. CO 2 emissions are expected
to fall by 368,000 tonnes over the life of the plant. The
project was financed with the help of USD 14.17 million
from the International Bank for Reconstruction and
Development.
The CHP plant recovers thermal energy to achieve great
efficiencies.