{"id":1004198556,"date":"2017-11-29T01:41:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T09:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004198556"},"modified":"2022-12-08T17:14:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T01:14:26","slug":"chernobyl-goes-solar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/chernobyl-goes-solar\/","title":{"rendered":"Chernobyl Goes Solar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Anca Gagiuc<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/11\/pripyat-1374515_1920.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1004198562\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/chernobyl-goes-solar\/pripyat-1374515_1920\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/11\/pripyat-1374515_1920.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,620\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;18&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D90&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1371258296&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;21&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;500&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"pripyat-1374515_1920\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/11\/pripyat-1374515_1920.jpg?w=800\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1004198562 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/11\/pripyat-1374515_1920.jpg\" alt=\"pripyat-1374515_1920\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/11\/pripyat-1374515_1920.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/11\/pripyat-1374515_1920.jpg?resize=300,233 300w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/11\/pripyat-1374515_1920.jpg?resize=768,595 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Ukrainian engineering firm Rodina Energy Group Ltd. and Hamburg-based clean energy company Enerparc AG will develop the first solar project in the Chernobyl area. The project will be 1 megawatt in size and will cost roughly 1 million euros ($1.2 million) to develop, according to Rodina CEO Evgeny Variagin via <em>Bloomberg<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2016, Ukraine\u2019s minister of ecology announced a plan to revitalize the 1,000-mile plot of land surrounding the area of the nuclear meltdown that occurred in 1986. High levels of radiation, estimated to pollute the region around Chernobyl for around 180 to 320 years, make farming, hunting and forestry dangerous, so turning the area into a renewable energy farm is the best solution. In addition, the transmission lines that were intended to send electricity from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant to the rest of Ukraine are already in place.<\/p>\n<p>Rodina announced that 3,762 modules have been installed at the site, with specially designed mounting systems and foundations, due to additional requirements for site and radiological safety. The project is slated for completion by the end of 2017.<\/p>\n<h2>Honey to investors<\/h2>\n<p>This project is only the ice breaker\u2014the partnership intends to invest 100 million euros ($119 million) to create upwards of 99 more megawatts of solar in the area. According to <em>Bloomberg<\/em>\u2019s report, the Ukrainian government is offering cheap land to allure more investors. Among those interested are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/engie-enters-mongolia-with-55mw-wind-farm\/\">French energy giant<\/a> Engie SA\u2014the company is already conducting a pre-feasibility test with a gigawatt-sized project in mind\u2014and Chinese companies GCL System Integration Technology Co. Ltd. and China National Complete Engineering Corp.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo via pixabay.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A partnership between Rodina Energy Group Ltd. and Enerparc AG is working on a 1-megawatt solar facility, slated for completion by the end of the year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":1004198562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21782,21748,16,21742,21786],"tags":[38443,37390,38442,35606],"class_list":["post-1004198556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-development","category-industrial","category-international","category-latest","category-sustainability","tag-enerparc-ag","tag-engie","tag-rodina-energy-group","tag-solar-farm"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.0) - 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