Economic and Technical Aspects of the Use of Wood Waste Gasification Power Plants in Decentralized Nature Protection Areas: The Example of the Natural Territory of Lake Baikal

Abstract

The studies on the assessment of the economic efficiency of local gasifier biomass power plants for power supply to 5 settlements located in the Central Ecological Zone of the Baikal Natural Territory are presented. Various schemes of operation of power plants using biomass as the main fuel (chips or pellets) and options for combined operation with a diesel power plant are considered. The calculation of the normalized cost of electricity for each case is carried out. It is shown that wood chips, as the cheapest wood fuel, it is advisable to reach a distance of no more than 115 km and 180 km compared to pellets and diesel fuel, respectively.