The logic of yesterday's Platform meeting was structured as follows:
1. What is “good” and what is “bad” in choosing renewable energy equipment for business needs
2. How to correctly determine what exactly you need, how to correctly determine the best option for a suitable technology and how much of this “good” you need. This is all done through proper pre-project and project preparation.
3. Where to get the money to finance all this, or what opportunities does the business have for this. Including pre-project and design work of experts (this is where the EBRD program provides enormous assistance)
It is these stages that we will now go through and give conclusions from the last meeting.
Timur Mustafaev answered the first question - what is “good” and what is “bad”. In fact, he outlined how things are now on the market: a lot of no name PV panels brought into the country through no name suppliers, sold for waste money.
Businesses, which are often forced to switch to RES, while tariffs are not so high for making an independent decision to switch to RES, simply go and buy this cheap no name, for show. But if money is still spent on this, often borrowed money, why not immediately follow the right path and calculate what is more profitable? No name are incorrectly transported, incorrectly stored, incorrectly manufactured and installed. Hence the efficiency is insanely low. And such systems discredit the entire technology and destroy people’s faith in renewable energy. Because people look at bad examples. It is important to find reliable and proven equipment suppliers so that they work for a long time and efficiently. The picture shows a comparison of the operation of a good station and no name.
Download and read the presentation of Timur Mustafayev
Main thoughts from the speech of Viktor Sermyazhko, representative of the Association of Renewable Energy of the Republic of Belarus.
For the implementation of any renewable energy project, detailed pre-design and design work is extremely important, which solves a number of issues.
Experienced designers can clearly calculate all possible aspects of using renewable energy sources:
• Are there opportunities for high-quality transformation of electricity into thermal energy and vice versa – using waste (recycled) heat to save electricity;
• Possibilities of recuperation and other energy-saving technologies to save energy and reduce the required RES capacity;
• Correct location of the renewable energy facility, including azimuth location, avoidance of shading for solar power plants, reduction of transmission losses, etc.;
• Correct solution to the problem of energy storage to smooth out load peaks and possible solution to the issue of different tariffs depending on the time of day (peak and off-peak in the network)
All this is impossible without competent decisions reflected in pre-design and design work.
Involving competent experts for the development and management of projects will help not only reduce the payback period of the project, but will also help level out the imbalance of the entire energy system of the country (not allow producing so much that the network cannot accept and distribute, and remove peak energy shortages), ensure a smooth and high-quality transition from traditional energy to renewable energy.
