RUSSIA AND UKRAINE

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RUSSIA AND UKRAINE

• By Paul Ozhekh, Janet Shekhtmeyster, Parker Finot

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What is energy used for?
http//www.earthtrends.wri.org/pdf_library/country
_profiles/ene_cou_643.pdf
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How is it used
http//earthtrends.wri.org/pdf_library/data_tables
/ene2_2005.pdf
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ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
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WIND (Renewable Energy)

• Russia has enormous renewable energy resource
  potential, but its current use of renewable
  energy is quite low
• In 1999 Wind energy resources accounted for .2
  thousand metric tons of oil equivalent

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Wind
Majority of wind potential is situated in Northen
Russia and far east Terrain seacoasts,
steppes, and mountains Recent estimates put the
total technical wind energy potential in Russia
equivalent to 2,000 million tons of equivalent
fuel
http//www.ebrdrenewables.com/sites/renew/countrie
s/Russia/profile.aspxWind
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Case Study A Small Wind-Power Plant in Istinka,
Russia

• In 1996 a farming family purchased a small
  wind-power plant to produce electricity for their
  farm
• Costs were 800 USD
• Power output about 300 Watts

http//www.zpok.hu/inforse/24.html
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Nuclear Energy

• Nuclear Power occupies a special place in
  Russian President Vladimir Puttins national
  energy strategy (Yazman)
• Generation should increase from current 16/17 to
  25 by 2030.
• Half of the operating reactors are the same
  design as the Chernobyl plant and many of the
  plants are nearing the end of their rated work
  life
• Vast economic resources need to be spent to
  improve the current nuclear energy plants

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• Russia has begun negotiating with Ukraine and
  Kazakhstan to restore a shared nuclear
  infrastructure
• A nuclear cooperation agreement would clear the
  way for Russia to import and store 1000s of tons
  of spent nuclear fuel from US supplied reactors
• Russia and the US are working together to develop
  more efficient and less waste intensive advanced
  reactors to meet future energy challenges

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Electricity Generation and Consumption in Russia
Electricity Generation and Consumption in Russia
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Hydroelectric (Renewable Energy)

• In 1999 Hydroelectric energy accounted for 13,802
  thousand metric tons of oil equivalent
• total hydropower technical potential in Russia is
  estimated to be about 2,400 billion kWh per year
  the majority of which is based on medium and
  large rivers
• There is also significant hydro potential on the
  smaller rivers in Russia. Installed hydropower
  generating capacity represents about 21 percent
  of the total generating capacity of Russia
• Most of the potential hydropower resources are
  located in Central and Eastern Siberia and in the
  Far East. The North Caucasus and the western part
  of the Urals also have good hydropower potential

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Potential Hydro-electric sources
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Works Cited

• Earthtrends.wri.org
• Yasman, V (2006). Analysis Russias New Nuclear
  Strategy. Radio Free Europe
• INFORSE
• EBRD Renewable Energy Initiative