Project

Removing Barriers to Wind Power Development in Belarus

Lead country

Belarus

Participating countries

Belarus

Project status

Under implementation

Implementing period

From July 9, 2014 to June 30, 2021

Project ID: 4462

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Technical team

  • Energy Programme

Technical area(s)

  • Renewable Energy

Sub-area(s)

  • Type: On-grid, utility-scale
  • Resource: Wind

Landscape(s)

N/A

Transformed sector(s)

  • Energy

UNDP role(s)

  • Capacity development / Technical assistance
  • Institutional mechanism and system building
  • Risk analysis

Strategy

  • Governance
  • Finance economy
  • Capacity building

Sub-strategy

  • Institutional framework
  • Partnerships
  • Laws/ Policy/ Plan formulation
  • Energy finance
  • Technical capacity building
  • Institutional capacity building
  • Awareness raising

Social inclusion

  • Private sector
  • Women

Gender equality

  • Women decision making

Gender result effectiveness scale

  • Gender targeted

Pathway(s)

  • Systems pathway
  • Sci-tech pathway
  • People pathway

Risk reduction target(s)

  • Hazard control/mitigation

SDG target(s)

  • 7.2 Increase share of global renewable energy

Conventions and protocols

N/A

Private sector(s)

  • Capital providers

Hot topic

  • Multi-stakeholder collaboration

About this project

Description

The results of the fact-finding mission organized by UNDP Country Office (CO) in November 2009 and subsequent analysis allow revealing a number of barriers to wind power development in Belarus. Removing these barriers would help the effective implementation of wind energy plans in Belarus. Therefore, the Government of Belarus approached UNDP CO to request assistance on the development of a wind energy project that would help country's capacity building and address removal of the regulatory, institutional, technical, knowledge and awareness-related barriers, as indicated in the table below. Most of these barriers will be addressed by the proposed GEF project with strong collaboration with the Government and other interested investors.

Objectives

Removing Barriers to Wind Power Development in Belarus and the installation of over 25 MW of nameplate generating capacity with a minimum of 5 MW per project and the generation of >1 million MWh of renewable energy and achieving direct greenhouse gas emission reductions totaling >500,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent.

USD $3,125,000

Grant amount

USD $41,020,000

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Sources of fund

 

  • Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($3,125,000)

Implementing partner(s)

  • Government of Belarus

Project metrics

Outcome 1:

Secondary Legislation is in place to support wind energy with the support of the project

 Indicators:

Installation of at least 25MW of wind power utilizing market based investments with average net capacity factors over 30% which will produce the objective of generating >1 million MWh of renewable energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by > 500,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
A financeable feed-in-tariff including transmission charges.
Rules and procedures for grid connection.
Clear guidelines and viable examples of Wind Farm investments in place
Developed and published manuals
Availability of adequate funding for the WPFI and the PMU
Installation of at least five meteorological towers are installed and data is collected for at least one year.
Selection of an outside consultant capable of performing the development work
The WPFI, a private entity, obtains permits and Investment Agreements for at least 5 projects
The WPFI, a private entity, successfully tenders at least 5 projects and finds acceptable level of investor interest
WPFI, a private entity, develops 5 wind farms which developers purchase and proceed to construction.
Outcome 2:

Increased confidence in the profitability of wind power projects in Belarus
Outcome 3:

An Investment Grant is made by the GEF project which funds the WPFI
Outcome 4:

At least (5) wind farm projects are successfully developed and the WPFI continues to operate past the lifetime of the project
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Removing Barriers to Wind Power Development in Belarus

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