Belarus
TABLE 3. ESTIMATED AVAILABLE ENERGY SOURCES
Estimated available energy sources | ||||||
Fossil Fuels | Nuclear | Renewables | ||||
Solid | Liquid | Gas | Uranium | Hydro | Other Renewable | |
Total amount in specific units* | 15150** | 58 | 3.43 | - | 0.0023 | *** |
Total amount in Exajoule (EJ) |
TABLE 4. ENERGY STATISTICS (EJ)
Average annual growth rate (%) | |||||||
1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2009 | 2000 to 2009 (%) | |
Energy consumption* | |||||||
- Total | 0.07 | 0.17 | 0.23 | 0.29 | 0.31 | 0.32 | 1.12 |
- Solids** | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
- Liquids | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
- Gases | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
- Nuclear | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
- Hydro | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
- Other Renewables | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Energy production | |||||||
- Total | 0.22 | 0.48 | 0.56 | 0.35 | 0.4 | 0.38 | 0.95 |
- Solids** | 0.10 | 0.03 | - | - | - | - | - |
- Liquids | 0.09 | 0.42 | 0.23 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.08 | 18.52 |
- Gases | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.33 | 0.32 | 0.38 | 0.30 | -0.7 |
- Nuclear | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
- Hydro | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
- Other Renewables | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Net import (Import - Export) | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0.026 | 0.018 | 0.016 | -4.27 |
- Total | 0.376 | 0.418 | 0.396 | 0.59 |
TABLE 5. ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION, CONSUMPTION AND CAPACITY
Average annual growth rate (%) | |||||||
1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2009 | 2000 to 2009 | |
Capacity of electrical plants (GWe) | |||||||
- Thermal | 2.5 | 5.9 | 6.7 | 7.6 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 0.13 |
- Hydro | 0.01 | 0.07 | 0.05 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0 |
- Nuclear | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
- Wind | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
- Geothermal | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
- other renewable | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
- Total | 2.51 | 5.97 | 6.75 | 7.61 | 7.81 | 7.71 | 0.13 |
Electricity production (TW.h) | |||||||
- Thermal | 14.8 | 33.8 | 39.2 | 25.6 | 30.1 | 28.6 | 1.17 |
- Hydro | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 5 |
- Nuclear | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
- Wind | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
- Geothermal | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
- other renewable | na | na | na | na | na | na | na |
- Total (1) | 14.83 | 33.82 | 39.22 | 25.62 | 30.12 | 28.63 | 1.17 |
Total Electricity consumption (TW.h) | 14.8 | 33.8 | 39.2 | 33.2 | 34.7 | 34.5 | 0.39 |
TABLE 6. ENERGY RELATED RATIOS
1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | |
Energy consumption per capita (GJ/capita) | na | na | na | na | na |
Electricity consumption per capita (kW.h/capita) | na | na | na | na | na |
Electricity production/Energy production (%) | na | na | na | na | na |
Nuclear/Total electricity (%) | na | na | na | na | na |
Ratio of external dependency (%) (1) | na | na | na | na | na |
TABLE 5: STATUS AND PERFORMANCE OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS AS OF 31 DECEMBER 2015
Reactor Unit | Type | Net Capacity [MW(e)] |
Status | Operator | Reactor Supplier |
Construction Date |
First Criticality Date |
First Grid Date |
Commercial Date |
Shutdown Date |
UCF for 2015 |
BELARUSIAN-1 | PWR | 1109 | Under Construction | BelNPP | ASE | 2013-11-06 | |||||
BELARUSIAN-2 | PWR | 1109 | Under Construction | BelNPP | ASE | 2014-04-26 |
Data source: IAEA - Power Reactor Information System (PRIS). | |||||||||||
Note: Table 7 is completely generated from PRIS data to reflect the latest available information and may be more up to date than the text of the report. |
TABLE 8. PLANNED NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
Station Name | Type | Capacity | Expected Construction Start Year | Expected Commercial Year |
WWPR | 1200 | 2011 | 2016 | |
WWPR | 1200 | 2013 | 2018 |