SD Course in Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, 12-23 Febraury 2006

1. Problems Concerning Ukrainian
Energy System Sustainability
Proposed by Group 2

2. Problems Concerning
Ukrainian Energy System
Sustainability Contents
•Introduction
•Main groups of problems
•Technological Issues
•Regulation and Legislative Issues
•Social Aspects
•Conclusions
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3. Problems Concerning
Ukrainian Energy System
Sustainability Introduction
The goal of 21 century lies in sustainable
energy systems as the way of reaching
sustainable development.
The main directions are:
• Efficient energy use
• Reducing energy use
• New technologies in energy production
(like renewable sources)
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4. Problems Concerning
Ukrainian Energy System
Sustainability Introduction
Unlike some African & Asian states, Ukraine
has rather developed infrastructure but,
nevertheless, we don’t receive the results
similar to that ones of smart societies.
2,6 times
0.89
0.84
0.33
Compared with the EU-25, Ukraine
0.40 0.34 0.43 0.39
0.50
0.33 0.34
0.30
0.20 0.20 0.26 0.26 0.24 0.23
uses 3.3 times more energy toS1 0.240.34
0.26
produce each unit of GDP
Turkey
Germany
Hungary
Spain
Great Britain
Finland
Poland
Japan
World
Austria
Denmark
France
Czech Republic
Lithuania
Ukraine
Russia
Belarus
Australia
China
Switzerland
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5. Problems Concerning
Ukrainian Energy System
Sustainability Introduction
Ukraine offers great potential for energy
savings but lacks practical approach to use
this potential.
Metallurgy state-owned energy%
Ukraine’s 35
efficiency company, UkrESCO,
Fuel and power sector efficiency could
estimates that greater 30%
Chemicals 35 per cent reduction in
achieve a 11%
energy import.
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6. Problems Concerning
Ukrainian Energy System
Sustainability Introduction
We don’t use renewable resources!
Only 4% of Ukrainian energy
comes from renewable
resources. But these are only
water resources.
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7. Problems Concerning
Ukrainian Energy System
Sustainability Renewable resources
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8. Problems Concerning
Ukrainian Energy System
Sustainability Introduction
The main reasons are the following:
Ineffectiveness
Indifference
Mismanagement
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9. Problems Concerning
Ukrainian Energy System
Sustainability Main Groups of Problems
Technological Social
Regulation
and
Legislative
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10. Problems Concerning
Ukrainian Energy System
Sustainability Technological Issues
• Old equipment for energy production,
transporting and consumption
• Energy distribution systems are not perfect
• Non-coordinated energy
production/consumption (cooling, heating,
air conditioning etc.)
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11. Problems Concerning
Ukrainian Energy System
Sustainability Technological Issues
1. Old equipment for energy production,
transporting, and consumption
• Nowadays, greater part of electricity in Ukraine is
generated on condensing plants that have coefficient
of performance approximately 30%. It is much lower
than that ones of heat and power (cogeneration)
plants (about 80%)
• Old and ineffective appliances for burning fossil
fuels
• We use inefficient gas-boilers or electric resistance
heaters mostly for heating of single-family houses
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12. Problems Concerning
Ukrainian Energy System
Sustainability Technological Issues
~ 90% of power units are exhausted
~ 40% of equipment is not suitable for operation
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13. Problems Concerning
Ukrainian Energy System
Sustainability Technological Issues
2. Energy distribution systems are not perfect
• Big energy losses during transportation (sometimes
about 40% of energy generated on power plant or boiler-
house)
• Low thermal insulation of buildings which are cooled or
heated. As a consequence we cause a great environmental
damage not only during transportation, but also during
heating or cooling the objects
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14. Problems Concerning
Ukrainian Energy System
Sustainability Technological Issues
3. Uncoordinated energy production/consumption
(cooling, heating, air conditioning etc.)
•Weak weather forecast for heating rate of boiler
houses regulating
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15. Problems Concerning
Ukrainian Energy System
Sustainability Technological Issues
3. Uncoordinated energy production/consumption
(cooling, heating, air conditioning etc.)
•We don’t possess practical scheme of simultaneous
production of heat and cool where they are needed. We use
different sources and different appliances both for heating and
cooling, so energy input on such factories increases twice or
more
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16. Problems Concerning
Regulation and Legislative Issues
Ukrainian Energy System
Sustainability
• Resource market monopolization
• State does not encourage the effective
energy consumption
• State does not stimulate the scientific
researches in the sphere given
• Absence of proper risk management
system
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17. Problems Concerning
Regulation and Legislative Issues
Ukrainian Energy System
Sustainability
1. Resource market monopolization
Alfa Group, System Capital Management, RosUkrEnergo,
Privat Group, Industrial Union of Donbass, etc.
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18. Problems Concerning
Ukrainian Energy System
Sustainability Regulation and Legislative Issues
Share of imported energy carriers in structure of
energetic complex of different countries
90.0 97.9
80.1 82.1
68.9 74.3 64.7
71.6
61.4 57.7 60.7
50.0 55.9
35.9 34.1 33.3 26.5
23.8
11.6
-27.2 -8.9
Ge rm a ny
Ita ly
H unga r y
P o r tu g a l
S p a in
F in la n d
S w itz e r la n d
E n g la n d
Ir e la n d
Lux e m bourg
P o la n d
D e nm a rk
Greece
Fra nc e
N e th e r la n d s
A u s tr ia
E s to n ia
R e p u b lic
R o m a n ia
U k r a in e
B e lg iu m
Czech
th e
The main external suppliers are
Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan
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19. Problems Concerning
Regulation and Legislative Issues
Ukrainian Energy System
Sustainability
2. The state does not encourage effective
energy consumption
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20. Problems Concerning
Regulation and Legislative Issues
Ukrainian Energy System
Sustainability
3. The state does not really stimulate
scientific researches in this sphere
Total R&D
Country Expenditures,
million $
Ukraine 3.2
Finland 61
Norway 70
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21. Problems Concerning
Regulation and Legislative Issues
Ukrainian Energy System
Sustainability
4. Absence of proper risk management
system
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22. Problems Concerning
Ukrainian Energy System
Sustainability Social Aspects
• Engineering specialties are badly treated and
poorly-paid, and moreover, they have no
social defense (R&D are not profitable at all)
• Society lacks information on need for
sustainable development
Indifference to efficient
use questions
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23. Problems Concerning
Ukrainian Energy System
Sustainability Social Aspects
1. Engineering specialties are badly treated
and poorly-paid, and moreover, they have
no social defense
• R&D are not profitable at all
• People work under very high risk
• It's hard to find worthwhile salary
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24. Problems Concerning
Ukrainian Energy System
Sustainability Social Aspects
2. Society lacks information on need for
sustainable development
• Politicians are not worried with our unsustainable
development
• Most of energetic specialists are not aware of SD
paradigm
• SD is not taught in schools
and universities
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25. Problems Concerning
Ukrainian Energy System
Sustainability Studying Sustainability
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26. Problems Concerning
Ukrainian Energy System
Sustainability Conclusions
The main objectives for the energy system
of Ukraine are:
ü Efficiency
ü Safe environment
üR&D
Sustainable
development
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27. Problems Concerning
Ukrainian Energy System
Sustainability Let’s protect them!
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