A PROJECT BORN FROM A SHARED COMMITMENT TO SUSTAINABILITY.
The municipal enterprise ZhytomyrTeploKomunEnergo, part of the Zhytomyr City Council (Ukraine), received financing from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and from the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) of the Swiss government to carry out an innovative municipal district heating project. The public tender issued by the municipality covered the design, supply of equipment and materials, installation, testing and commissioning of a biomass cogeneration plant connected to the city's district heating network. Among the international competitors who took part in the tender, Uniconfort was awarded the contract, overseeing the entire project: design, engineering, manufacturing and installation of the complete plant, equipped with a boiler and an ORC turbine.
THE PLANT.
Thanks to the new Uniconfort biomass plant, located in Zhytomyr, a few kilometers from Kyiv, the municipality has taken a decisive step toward its own energy independence, reducing its dependence on imported natural gas from abroad. The plant runs exclusively on local wood chips as fuel, autonomously producing sustainable thermal and electrical energy. The system is connected to the city's 20.1 km district heating network, which serves public buildings, offices, schools, kindergartens, hospitals and private homes, bringing heat and energy security directly into the community's daily life. Output reaches 7.1 MWt of thermal energy and 1.2 MWe of electrical energy. Each year, the plant avoids the emission of 13,975 tonnes of CO₂, replacing the fossil fuels previously in use. This project represents just the first step of a broader path: the Zhytomyr administration aims to replicate the model with further biomass plants, with the goal of significantly reducing the city's district heating system's dependence on natural gas.
PLANT DATA
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Boiler |
Global model |
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Total power |
Up to 7.1 MW thermal + 1.2 MW electric |
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Thermal energy produced |
37.600 MWh/year |
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Electrical energy produced |
8.000 MWh/year |
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Fuel |
Local wood chips |