Ukraine intends to bypass Europe on biofuel

In article prospects of production of biofuel in Ukraine are considered, and the consumption analysis biotopliva in comparison with EU is provided.

UKRAINE DEFIANTLY INTENDS to BYPASS EUROPE ON BIOFUEL

According to the development program of production of diesel biofuel, by 2010 in Ukraine not less than 520 thousand t of all types of biofuel should be issued.

Since January 1 of this year the law concerning production of smesevy gasolines on the basis of bioethanol came into force. This law lowered excise rates on gasoline, by additives from bioethanol from 2 % or etil-rubs-butyl air from 5 %. In the first version of the law an excise fiksi­rovalsya at level of 30 EURza ton, odna­ko later a rate lifted to 42 EURza ton. Bioethanol should be issued at distilleries.

Other direction – production of biodiesel fuel on the basis of rastiyotelny oils, in particular, rape. In Odessa region already passed probyony start-up of the line on manufacturing biodi­zelya at the enterprise "Biodiesel Bessayorabiya". The production capacity pervoyonachalno should make 7 thousand t. fuels in a year, and a year later to increase to 15 thousand t. In January to build plant on production, biofuels of the beginnings doyonetsky plant "Tekhnosoyuz" in capacity of 10 thousand t. in a year. About plans to construct plant this year the company "Fried Farm Interyoneshnl" which intends to make a biodiesel engine from a soya reported also.

According to experts, for development of the alternative direction it is necessary to stimulate financially oil industry workers to production and sale petrol mixes, as an initial sebesyotoimost of a biodiesel engine on the basis of a rape the very high.

The parliament intends to enter new privileges for producers of biofuel. In the Verkhovna Rada the bill is registered, obyazyvayuyoshchiya of the power of the large cities to 2010 go­da completely to pass to biofuel consumption.

Participants of the market consider that prinyayoty this bill threatens with the oil refining termination in Ukraine and majority leaving trejde­rov in a shadow.

Radicalism of the bill No. 3158 "About development of production and a potrebleyoniya of species of fuel" consists and in unprecedented privileges for proizvoyoditel of biofuel. It agrees dokumen­tu, local executive authorities of Kiev and the cities with the population over 500 thousand people by 2008 are obliged obespe­chit transfer of 50 % of transpoyortny means to biofuel, and by 2010 – completely to pass on potrebleyony this fuel.

The bill assumes introduction till 2010 obligatory a bioethanol ispolzovayoniya when manufacturing gasoline in volume of 10 %. Production bio­topliva is planned to resolve to predpyoriyatiya of all forms of ownership. Takyozhe the project suggests to carry biofuel to bezaktsizny types of production, os­vobodit his producers from payment of the VAT for 5-10 years and to create vnevedomyostvenny state committee on questions of production of biofuel.

Deputies highly appreciate perspek­tivy adoptions of the document.

Opponents consider that it granting privileges to producers of biofuel will give the chance to make the forged fuel in large quantities. Having learned that the bill the authorities of the large cities till 2010 a polyonost will oblige to pass to consumption biotop­liva, participants of the market were even more categorical. On the cities with the population over 500 thousand people are considered by them, 40 % of consumption of gasoline and diesel fuel in Ukraine are necessary. If all of them to transfer to biofuel from a rape, to traditional plants at all there will be no place and it will stop traditional oil refining. And EU biofuel on the average for 15-20 % is more expensive today than the traditional. At a meeting in Brussels Ministers of Energy of EU countries accepted a rezoyolyutsiya according to which by 2020 of 10 % of cars in the European Union will be peyorevedeno on biological fuel – alcohols and made of bio­massy methane. Ministers also urged to finish by 2020 a share renewed istochni­kov energy in the all-European energoyopotrebleniye to 20 % – today it makes 7 %. However this arrangement doesn’t carry a binding character. Against introduction rigid, obyazatelyyony for all EU countries of norm of an ispolzoyovaniye of renewable sources of an eneryogiya expressed Great Britain, Franyotsiya and Finland.

(On newspaper materials To Fermerska a hospodariate).