By 2020, Vinnytsia region intends to build and restore 13 small hydroelectric power plants with an installed capacity of about 1.3 MW.
Now on the territory of the region there are 11 inactive small hydroelectric power stations on which it is possible to organize electricity production according to the "green" tariff, the main transmits with reference to EcoTown.
To restore non-operating HPPs, a significant amount of investment may be required. So, Sokoletskaya hydroelectric power station in Nemyrivsky district has a capacity of 400 kW, but the station's premises are destroyed, and equipment is not available. In 2015, an investor from Sweden was interested in the restoration of the hydroelectric power station, but it turned out that the area around the facility was rented for a period of 25 years.
In Tyvrovsky district in the village of Potush the building of the former small hydro power plant was privatized and made of it a recreation area.
Some HPPs are destroyed over time and fall into decay so that it is almost impossible to use them. But there are other examples. This spring the work of Uladovskaya HPP began, the small HPP in Demidovka of the Zhmerinsky district is being completed.
According to the Department of Housing, Energy and Infrastructure of Vinnytsia Regional State Administration, at the beginning of 2017 there were 20 small hydropower plants with an installed capacity of 21.3 MW.
"Hydroelectric power plants play not a small role in the production of electricity, 5-6 times cheaper than at TPPs", - says the chairman of the regional state administration Valery Koroviy.
Today, the share of hydroelectric power in Vinnitsa does not exceed 1% of the total regional production.
To produce electricity thanks to water resources in the Vinnitsa region started in the first half of the 20th century. In the region there are three old small hydropower stations - in the village of Biryulyovo and in the towns of Bratslav and Vinnitsa (Sabarovskaya HPP).
The largest of the generating facilities is the Ladyzhenskaya Small Hydroelectric Power Station with a capacity of 9 MW.
According to the current international classification and UN standards, small HPPs are considered to have a capacity of 1 to 30 MW, and mini-HPPs are from 100 to 1,000 kW.