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border, Odesa now has 23 solar plants in the below 50 MW size. Spain’s Acciona Energia Global is seeking to win permission to buy majority control of two solar projects in Izmail owned by UDP Renewables of Vasyl Khmelnytsky.
After opening a 10.5 MW plant last year in Nikopol, Canadian renewable energy company TIU has its second Ukraine plant, in Mykolaiv region, on Thursday. With an investment of about €11mn, the plant was built in Kalynivka, 150 km northwest of Mykolaiv city.
The Ukraine partner of German’s Fuhrländer AG is starting to make 4.5- 4.8 MW wind turbines at its Kramatorsk plant, double the size of the first turbines made by Fuhrlaender Windtechnology LLC when it started production in 2012. With 15-20 of these turbines to be built this year, a special crane will be imported to erect them, Andriy Sergienko, a director of Wind Parks of Ukraine, tells ExPro Consulting site. While electronics are imported, largely from Siemens, about 70%% of the turbine/tower package is produced in Ukraine, he says.
With German turbines and Chinese construction, work starts this spring on a €380mn Franco-Norwegian project to build 250 MW of wind capacity on the north shore of Lake Syvash, facing Crimea. Norway’s NBT AS has partnered with Total-Eren S.A. to build the wind farm on a 1,308 hectare site in southern Kherson, expanding on an existing 3 MW project. Beijing-based PowerChina is performing engineering, procurement and construction. By the end of this year, Rostock-based Nordex SE is to supply 34 turbines, for first 133 MW.
NBT has signed an agreement with Unit Venture Investment Fund develop a €1bn 742 MW wind power plant along the northern shore of the Azov, in Yakymivka district, Zaporizhia. With the working name of ‘Zophia,’ this would be the largest onshore wind power plant in Europe. Currently, the largest is a 600 mw plant, Fântânele & Cogealac, in Romania. The second largest is Whitelee, a 539 MW plant in Scotland.
About 15 km east of the Polish border, a 100 MW wind power plant is being planned for the Volyn region village of Myshiv. The plan is to raise 35 turbine towers on a 150 hectare site. As a first step, the developer, Wind Power GSI Volyn, is erecting this spring a 120-meter high wind gauge, according to bug.org.ua news site.
About 15 km south of the Belarus border, 189 MW of wind power capacity is to be built in three stages at Pokaliv, Zhytomyr by Wind Solar Energy, of Cyprus. Called Lisova, or forest, the plant’s first stage is to be 111 MW, reports Interfax-Ukraine.
Belgium-based GreenWorx Holding N.V. broke ground two weeks ago on a €188mn, 110 MW wind power plant on the north shore of Kherson’s windswept Gulf of Dnipro. Located in Oleksandrivka, Bilozerka district, the project is to use 25 Nordex turbines of 4.4 MW each. According to Eco Town news site, GreenWorx CEO Tom Hanson said at the groundbreaking that construction will create 300 jobs and the plant will create 40 fulltime jobs.
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