Ukrainian-Belgian company to plant switch grass for biomass in Chornobyl zone

interfax.com.au
5-18-11

The State Agency for the Exclusion Zone Management, jointly with PhytoFues Investments, a Ukrainian-Belgian company planting and using biomass, is intending to conduct an experiment to produce biomass in the Chornobyl exclusion zone to be used for energy generation, the agency's deputy head, Mykola Proskura, has said.

"We would like to complete major field studies in a year," he said at a press conference in Kyiv.

According to Proskura, the essence of the experiment is the planting of switch grass in the Chornobyl area to get biomass that will be burnt at thermal power plants to produce biogas.

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