Pipilo: the share of use of local fuels is growing annually in Belarus

The share of use of local fuels is growing in Belarus every year. This was announced by Minister of Housing and Communal Services Gennady Trubilo on the air of the Belarus 1 TV channel, sb.by reports.

In some regions, the heating season has already started, the heat there has so far begun to be supplied to social facilities. Preparations for the autumn-winter period in the country began in late April - early May. Utilities performed a range of works, including relaying heat networks, repair and reconstruction of boiler houses, replacing outdated boilers with more efficient ones, transferring boilers from gas to chips. Stockpiles of wood fuel have been made.

“We have an emphasis on local fuels. The share of local fuels in our country is growing every year. It's our cheap raw material. We also carried out a number of economic measures to save the cost of 1 Gcal. The population pays 29.2 rubles per 1 Gcal, the average cost in the country is more than 180 rubles. The rest is paid by the state. Therefore, our goal is to reduce production costs of 1 Gcal, thereby reducing the budget subsidy for such a significant product as heat, said Gennady Trubilo. He also added that the industry is constantly working to reduce heat loss.

The Minister noted that boiler houses on local fuels are profitable. Thus, imported gas is being replaced by domestic fuel and energy resources.

“We have 3,618 boiler houses. In my opinion, 2.4 thousand – on local fuels, he said. Another trend of the past and this season was that we paid attention to small boilers. The staff is there, it is necessary to heat firewood, maintaining the temperature. This is not very economical. Therefore, a decision was made and included in the state program - the transfer of these boiler houses to automatic mode and to fuel pellets (pellets). Thus, we free up labor resources, solve the cost of 1 Gcal. It is reduced almost twice as much as wood-burning boilers.”.

In Belarus, in 2025, 36 boiler houses were transferred to pellets, in the current - 37.

More than 66% of energy sources in Belarus run on local fuel and energy resources – Gosstandart