MONITORING OF BY-PRODUCT BIOMASS POTENTIAL FOR ENERGY NEEDS IN UKRAINE

By-products of crop production create renewable biopotential to provide agrarian production with alternative energy sources. Biomass received in crop production field may become one of the factors for solving the problem of energy independence, energy cheapening and cause growth of alternative energy sources share in Ukrainian energy balance. The purpose article is the rationale for monitoring potential of by-products biomass of crops for energy needs in Ukraine. Anyway monitoring of current potential of by-products biomass received from crop production should be held in order to reach its resultative usage as an alternative source of energy in Ukraine and regions. In the course of the research, the following methods were used: theoretical generalization, scientific abstraction, statistical-economic. Crop production was investigated as one of the main biomass sources. Monitoring of crops (winter and spring wheat, winter rye, winter and spring barley, oats, corn) cultivation was held. It was defined that gross harvest of other crops was significantly less then gross harvest of monitored crops. Available by-products volume and energy potential which can be received from by-product biomass on individual crops in Ukraine as a whole and also by areas were counted using the appropriate coefficients. Potential of by-product biomass for Ukraine energy needs in 2016–2018 was counted. Received result were used as a base for determining possible potential of available energy received from using by-products biomass. According to the evaluation volume of fuel equivalent received from by-products of crop production in 2016–2018 is 56002,1 thousand tones. Further research will be directed to the development of proposals for improvement use theoretical potential by-product biomass for energy.