Odesa to Build $106M RDF-Fueled Combined Heat and Power Plant

Odesa plans to build a new combined heat and power plant that will run on RDF fuel, an alternative fuel made from waste. The total cost of the project is $106 million.

This was reported by the press service of the regional state administration.

The project is being implemented with the participation of the South Korean company Posco International.

A working meeting on the project was held with the participation of Deputy Head of the Odesa Regional State Administration Andriy Figel and representatives of the Korean side. During the talks, the key parameters of the future facility were discussed. The combined heat and power plant will have a capacity of 12 MW of electricity and 40 MW of heat. The total cost of the project is USD 106 million (about UAH 3.9 billion), and its payback period is estimated at 6.5 years.

The city has already allocated a 4-hectare land plot for the construction of the CHP plant and provided the necessary engineering infrastructure, including a gas pipeline. The heat supply scheme has also been agreed with the Ministry of Community Development.

To launch the project, a working meeting was held between Deputy Minister Kostiantyn Kovalchuk, representatives of the State Agency for the Restoration and Development of Infrastructure, Odesa City Council, Odesa Regional State Administration, and the management of the South Korean company Posco International.

According to the Ministry of Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine, the Ukrainian and Korean parties have already begun preparing a Project Concept Paper (PCP), which, according to the procedures, must be officially submitted by the Ukrainian government.

Representatives of the ministry emphasize the importance of developing a regional waste management plan, which should include the creation of similar facilities in the region.

Recently, it became known that the Swedish government excluded Odesa from the cities selected as pilot territorial communities to participate in a Swedish government project to reform the national waste management system in accordance with European standards.

After that, Deputy Mayor of Odesa Hanna Pozdnyakova said that the responsibility for Odesa's exclusion from the international program of reforming the waste management system lies with the Department of Ecology of the Odesa Regional State Administration.

On February 5, members of the city council appealed to the head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration, Oleh Kiper, on this issue.

Meanwhile, the Center for Public Investigations tried to find out how the idea of creating a waste processing plant in Odesa is progressing. The journalists went to the Dalnytsia Quarries landfill and made an investigative film about it.

Ірина Глухова