Post-war recovery and energy independence strategy through biogas deployment in Ukrainian agriculture

The general aim of the project is to contribute to improving Ukrainian energy security by developing an investment strategy for the scaling-up of Anaerobic digestion (AD) systems based on its agricultural sector.
The war in Ukraine is creating significant socio-economic and environmental damage to Ukrainian society and beyond. The Russian attack on the largest Ukrainian nuclear power plant showed that the country’s energy supply could be used to keep the Ukrainian society and economy ‘hostage’. The recent interconnection with the European electricity grid shows that energy source diversification is needed. Ukraine has a longstanding track record of providing different world regions with essential nutrition. The associated agricultural waste streams provide an opportunity for the energy system via biogas energy systems. Decentralised biogas systems not only will help to address the current energy security crisis in Ukraine but also contribute to addressing climate change by providing clean, sustainable resilience energy systems.
The output of this project contributes to the ambition to make a difference globally and to address a major societal challenge by exploring one of the solutions to the energy challenges, biogas.
Participating partners include: Dutch organisations: JIN, and Adverio Engineering and a Ukrainian institution: ISSAR