Peat three times cheaper than natural gas in Belarus

12 июня 2017

By Dmitry Titov: The main value of the peat bogs at the Dokudovskoe deposit is energy. The solid fuel, according to experts, is now the cheapest energy source in the country.

Belarusian peat bricks produced at the Lida peat factory are exported to Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and several other European countries. The main income, however, comes fr om selling the peat bricks to industrial enterprises wh ere fuel consumption is enormous. In the Grodno region alone, companies plan to increase the purchase of peat energy products to 180,000 tons per year.

Peat extraction is actually an import-substituting energy project. For that purpose, the Lida factory has built an entire infrastructure from peat brick production to mechanisms for harvesting peat from the bog fields.