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Nuclear power plant’s contribution to Belarus’ energy security, technology sovereignty pointed out
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MOSCOW, 15 October (BelTA) – Electricity consumption increased by 6 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in Belarus in the last five years. The figure was quoted by Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Viktor Karankevich during the international forum Russian Energy Week in Moscow, BelTA has learned.
Viktor Karankevich stated that the project to build the Belarusian nuclear power plant had been a powerful impulse for the technological transformation of the power engineering industry. “This facility has been built in association with our strategic partner – the state corporation Rosatom – and meets the highest safety requirements. The nuclear power plant has ensured an increase in energy security, an increase in the technological sovereignty, and the expansion of the manufacturing potential of key branches of the economy such as power engineering, production sector, civil engineering, and healthcare,” he stated.
According to the deputy prime minister, the commissioning of the Belarusian nuclear power plant has allowed satisfying an increase in demand for electricity. In 2024 electricity consumption reached 43 billion kWh. Electricity consumption increased by 6 billion kWh in the last five years.
Speaking about the technological transformation of Belarus’ power engineering industry, he also identified a number of things. “First, the large-scale modernization of the power grid infrastructure as part of the ongoing trend of rising electricity consumption by real sectors of the economy and by the population. In the last five years the length of the power grids, which are being modernized, being reconstructed, and of new power grids has doubled. The construction of digital power substations of various voltage classes has been secured. A single automated system for managing the energy industry has also been deployed,” Viktor Karankevich noted.
“The next direction is to create more comfortable conditions for people’s life. It is one of the things the power engineering industry takes care of by means of promoting electric vehicles, developing the EV charging infrastructure, and using electricity for heating and hot water supply. And on the whole, it also allows accomplishing the main task set by the head of state: to create more comfortable conditions for people’s life,” the deputy prime minister stressed.
Apart from that, he drew attention to the environmental effect of the Belarusian nuclear power plant’s operation: thanks to the nuclear power plant the country has reduced greenhouse gas emissions by over 20 million tonnes.
Meanwhile, the gas industry continues developing in Belarus. According to the deputy prime minister, gas industry enterprises are some of the leaders in introducing and replicating cutting-edge technologies in the country: starting with creating digital replicas and ending with providing brand new services to consumers. A considerable part of innovative projects are implemented using proprietary software suites. “We do a lot in the sphere of import substitution. We develop modern digital products in-house and as a matter of fact we are not dependent on import,” Viktor Karankevich stressed.
Digital solutions allow accomplishing several important tasks as a complex: to increase the reliability of gas supply, to reduce costs, and respectively increase the industry’s performance. In the last ten years thanks to the digitization of business processes Belarusian gas-supplying organizations reduced the number of employees that service gas distribution grids by 7% despite a 15% increase in the number of customers and a 37% increase in the length of gas pipelines. All of it has been possible thanks to the introduction of modern technologies, the deputy prime minister noted.
“I would like to note that we’ve built reliable, tight, constructive partnership relations in a broad range of interaction in the sphere of heat and power with the Russian Federation,” Viktor Karankevich added.
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