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renewable] portfolio to 1,000 MW by the end of 2019. The total investment in these projects will exceed EUR 1bn.”
Ukraine’s first “100% Nordic-funded solar project” is under construction in Berdychiv, Zhytomir region , about 180km west Kyiv. The 19 MW project is being funded by Denmark’s Better Energy A/S, the Danish Sustainable Development Goals Development Fund (IFU) and the Nordic Environment Finance Corporation, or NEFCO. The Danish partners will own the €22mn project.
Ten kilometers north of Crimea, work is to start this spring on a 163 MW windpower farm designed to supply the power needs of Ukraine’s border area, Kherson’s Kalanchak district. In 2014, the district lost power when an explosion cut the line from the Dnipro Kakhovka hydro dam to Crimean Titan, the titanium dioxide plant in Armyansk, just south of the Russia-Ukraine control line. Windcart-Kalanchak has started preparatory work at the Kairka power substation, 10 km east of the windfarm site, at Myrne, according to Khersonski Fakti website.
A Franco-Belgian project to build a 110MW wind power farm on Kherson’s Black Sea coast is expected to win credit support in March , when the EBRD Board reviews the project. Project backers are: France’s Akuo Energy SAS, and Belgium’s Saffelberg Investment NV and Aeolus Invest NV. The Dnipro-Buzka wind power plant is to be in Oleksandrivka, a coastal village midway between Kherson and Mykolaiv cities. Nibulon, the grain trader, plans to build a port there in 2019.
DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy company, is building Ukraine’s largest wind power capacity on a 30 km stretch of Zaporizhia’s Sea of Azov coastline. This month, construction starts in Orlivka, 65 km west of Berdyansk, on Oryol, €135mn, 100 MW plant, powered by Vestas wind trubines from Denmark. Nearby, work is progressing on Primorska, a 200 MW project powered by GE turbines.In 2018, “we launched a construction of 500 MW of new solar and wind power plants,” Maxim Timchenko, CEO of DTEK, said last month. This spring, China Machinery Engineering Corporation plans to complete DTEK’s €200mn, 200 MW solar farm at Nikopol, Dnipetrovsk region. “The investments made by the company in the industry over the past two years amounted to about 700mn euros. In 2019, we plan to increase the portfolio of renewables to 1,000 MW.”
Ireland’s Altostrata plans to build a €60mn, 62 MW solar power station in the Luhynsky district , near Zhytomyr’s border with Belarus. Since 2011, an Altostrata unit has built 51 MW of solar projects in Belarus. At a recent meeting, Torsten Merkel, a German partner of Altostrata, said the plant would be ready in September and he asked for a reduced land rent for the solar project. According to Zhytomyr Journal, Igor Gunditsch, head of the Zhytomyr Regional Administration, replied that he would cut the rent to 1% -- if Altostrata meets the Dec. 31 deadline for commissioning and winning a ‘green’ tariff.
Kherson Polytechnic College has started a vocational program to train local high school graduates the skills of installing and servicing solar and wind power plants . With the help of Ukrenergo, the state power company, the first 50 students are enrolled. The college hopes to win full Education Ministry certification for the program by September.
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