PROSPECTS FOR INCREASING THE LEVEL OF ENERGY AUTONOMY OF PROCESSING ENTERPRISES OF AIC OF UKRAINE WITH THE HELP OF BIOGAS PRODUCTION

Abstract

Domestic processes of production and processing of agricultural products are characterized by a high specific energy capacity, which determines our economy as one of the most energy inefficient, and the resulting products, non-competitive in the agricultural food market of the EU countries, leaving us only the role of an exporter of raw materials for European food industry enterprises. In addition, almost all processes of the agro-industrial complex of Ukraine are characterized by environmental pollution, which generally contradicts the principles of ecologization and decarbonization of the economy, defined by the European Commission in the framework of the European Green Deal. Considering that the full integration of Ukraine into the EU is defined by the Constitution of Ukraine as the main vector of the foreign policy course, as well as the general global trends towards rising prices for fossil fuels and insufficient provision of the country with its own primary energy resources, research aimed at rationalizing the structure of energy consumption is becoming increasingly important. . fuel in accordance with EU standards and the greening of production, including through the introduction of alternative energy technologies at processing enterprises of the agro-industrial complex of Ukraine. The article assesses the resource potential of domestic agriculture and presents possible options for agrobiomass available in sufficient quantities suitable for anaerobic digestion followed by methane generation. Based on the systematization and generalization of information obtained from open sources, a potential direction for solving the problems of increasing the level of autonomy of processing enterprises was proposed, based on the creation of a macro-level technological system with four main elements: an agricultural enterprise, a processing enterprise, a territorial community and a biogas complex, and a fundamental structural model of such a territorial cluster.