Commissioned at the Slonim wastewater treatment plant, the biogas facilities have an installed capacity of 136 kilowatts (kWt) each.
The units, which secured a €2.85m loan from the EBRD, have the capacity to generate nearly two gigawatts hour (GWh) of clean energy annually that will be sufficient to meet 70% of the energy consumption demand of Slonim plant.
The loan was complemented by grant funding offered by the Swedish government and benefited from financial contributions from Austria and Finland.
The annual energy generated by the two facilities will be enough to power street lights for a municipality as well as cover the energy needs of 1120 average Belarusian households.
Additionally, the facilities are expected to offer significant savings of hydrocarbons, while offsetting carbon emissions by more than 246.000 tonnes annually.
The project is expected to provide a new platform for similar energy-efficient solutions in other Belarusian municipalities.
