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
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