The Ministry of Energy of Moldova is promoting further usage of biogas energy recovery technologies to generate power in the country and pointing to untapped potential and unused quotas.
Officials said they have allocated a quota of 410 megawatts (MW) for renewable energy production by 2025, of which 65 MW should be from biogas-based cogeneration facilities, but there has so far only been a 10 per cent uptake on the biogas quotas.
“The Moldovan business community has so far only used a 10th of the quotas allocated for biogas-based generation,” said Energy Secretary of State, Carolina Novac. “But this technology comes with multiple benefits – the energy recovery of waste, the reduction of dependence on imports and emissions of greenhouse gases, and a focus on local energy generation.”
Pointing to untapped potential, Secretary Novac noted that currently, the installed power of thermoelectric plants on biogas in Moldova is only about 6.8 MW.
Of the 65 MW of quotas available for biogas-based generation facilities, the government outlines that 35 MW should be from harnessing the energy potential of animal remains and waste, as well as agricultural waste, crops, and food industry waste.
A further 20 MW should come from municipal solid waste and 10 MW through the recovery of liquid municipal waste and wastewater.
Secretary Novac had a meeting this week with the Secretary General of the German Federal Environment Foundation (DBU), Alexander Bonde, with discussions focused on progress in Moldova on energy transition, notably the use of renewables, including biogas.
Secretary Novac told Mr Bonde that the promotion of renewable energy is one of the priorities of the Ministry of Energy and that Moldova had set the ambitious goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2050.
(ceenergynews.com, September 5, 2024)
