Biofuels Markets and Policies in Belarus

Karel Janda and Elena Stankus

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Abstract: This paper provides an overview of biofuel’s markets and policies in Belarus. Belarus remains the country with a critical level of energy dependence on Russia. Availability of cheap Russian sources and lack of diversification within energy sector hinder Belarus from expanding the potential of local energy resources. While energy independence and security, which is defined as share of local energy sources in the total energy balance, is declared as Belarusian priority, there is essentially no biofuels industry v Belarus. An interesting option of development of biofuels is a possibility of utilization of large areas unsuitable for human food or animal feed production because of Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

Keywords: Eastern Europe; Biofuels; Ethanol; Biodiesel (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: P28 Q16 Q42 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-02-09
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