The Ukrainian leader in biogas energy generation is unable to restore operations at three TPPs using biomass.

The Clear Energy group of companies, which is engaged in the construction and operation of bio-thermal power plants, wind turbines, and thermal power plants, never managed to put its biomass thermal power plants into operation, and power generation was stopped in the middle of last winter due to their unprofitability, said the chairman of the supervisory board of the group, Petro Bahrii.

As he specified, the company’s thermal power plants and a total of 54 MW of biomass capacity are currently idle due to a shortage of raw materials.

“The price set by the State Forestry Agency is unacceptable,” he said. At the same time, Bahrii emphasized that these 54 MW of power could be helpful to the power system now and in the winter period.

At the beginning of the year, Clear Energy had to stop its three biomass thermal power plants, with a total capacity of 22 MW, due to the increase in fuel chip prices regulated by the State Forestry Agency; the plants were unprofitable even under the green tariff.