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Zakarpattia is gaining a 10 MW solar station, located in Tereblya village,
near the Romanian border, National Industrial Portal reports. With land rents and fees already paid by the company, FES Tereblya, Ruslan Yanchyy, the village chairman, say he has repaired six kilometers of roads and provided lighting for seven streets. With the $12mn project going up on a 20-hectare site, the village leader sees permanent jobs for local electricians.
China Machinery Engineering Corporation and DTEK, Ukraine's largest private energy company, broke ground Thursday on a 200 MW, $265mn solar farm near Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region. Speaking to Xinhua at the 400-hectare site, Maksym Timchenko, chairman of the DTEK, said: "This would be the largest solar power station not only in Ukraine, but also at the European scale." When completed, six months from now, the Nikopol plant would be Europe’s second largest, after France’s Cestas 300 MW solar station. Financed by DTEK and by China Machinery, the plant will use equipment from three Chinese companies -- Seraphim Solar System and Trina Solar will provide 750,000 solar panels, and Shenzhen Kstar Science and Technology will supply 80 inverter stations.
Canada’s DAI Inc. plans to build a 150 MW, US$180mn solar farm in Rubizhne, 15 km north of Severodonetsk, administrative centre of government-controlled Luhansk region. Hennadiy Ivanenko, first deputy head of administration, said after a site visit by DAI experts: “The solar power plant will be able to provide 150 MW, which are critical for the energy security of our region.” Canadian Commercial Corporation, Canada’s trade support corporation, backs what would be the first Ukraine project for DAI, an Ottawa-based renewable energy company.
A German-Ukrainian joint venture is producing solar power from Chernobyl for the first time since the last Soviet-designed nuclear reactor closed there in 2000. The solar array produces only 1 MW of electricity, but plans call for expanding to 100 MW. "It's not just another solar power plant," Evhen Variagin, CEO of Solar Chernobyl LLC, told reporters Friday. "It's really hard to underestimate the symbolism of this particular project." Solar Chernobyl is a joint venture of Kyiv-based Rodina Energy Group and Hamburg-based Enerparc AG. For now, 3,800 panels produce electricity for 2,000 houses and apartment in northern Kyiv region.
A French-Czech company is to receive a 10-year, EUR 5.6mn loan from the EBRD to build a 7 MW solar power plant in Dnipro region. The company, Ekotechnik Shyroke LLC, is jointly owned by Ekotechnik Group of Czech and Tryba Energy of France.
Ukraine's leading coal and power holding DTEK has signed a second contract with US General Electric to supply equipment for Prymorska wind farm in the Zaporizhia region with a total capacity of 200 MW, DTEK's media office said in a statement. A second stage of the 100 MW capacity plant will also be built. The start of construction is slated for the fourth quarter of 2018. The first contract to supply equipment for Prymorska wind farm (100 MW) was signed in December 2017 and this stage will be completed at the end of 2018. The total planned investment in the second stage of Prymorska wind farm will be about €150mn, which is comparable with investments in the construction of the first stage, Interfax news agency reported on October 18. After the completion of the second stage of Prymorska wind farm, the portfolio
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