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Radioactive land around Chernobyl to sprout solar investments

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Enlarge/ CHORNOBYL', UKRAINE – AUGUST 19: In this aerial view electricity pylons stand near the new enclosure built over reactor number four at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on August 19, 2017 near Chornobyl', Ukraine. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)Getty Images

A mere 100m (328 feet) from the damaged reactor at Chernobyl in Ukraine, a one-megawatt, $1.2 million solar panel installation will likely be commissioned next month, according to Bloomberg. Back in summer 2016, the Ukrainian government said it was eager to get solar projects on the 1,000 square miles of radioactive land, and Ukrainian engineering firm Rodina Energy Group appears set to be an early arrival on the scene.

A solar installation makes sense in the shadow of the nuclear energy plant whose a reactor exploded in 1986. The land is too radioactive for farming or hunting or forestry, and transmission lines that were intended to send electricity from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant to the rest of Ukraine are already in place. Rodina and its partner Enerparc AG, a German financing company, plan to spend up to €100 million (or $119 million) to build renewable energy in Chernobyl’s exclusion zone.

Rodina isn’t the only company looking to take up the Ukrainian government’s offer of cheap land. A year ago, two Chinese companies announced a plan to build a huge 1 GW solar farm in Chernobyl's exclusion zone, although the companies seem to have made little movement on that plan thus far. In July of this year, French energy company Energie SA also announced plans to conduct a pre-feasibility study for a billion-euro solar plant near Chernobyl. Ukraine’s Minister of Ecology told Bloomberg at the time that more than 60 companies had expressed interest in building renewable energy in the vicinity of Chernobyl.

Besides cheap land, Ukraine is also attracting investors by offering “relatively high feed-in tariffs,” according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Rodina’s contract specifies that it will receive €0.15 (or $0.18) per kilowatt-hour until 2030, which is “almost 40 percent higher than the upper band of Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s benchmark range for the levelized cost of solar in Europe.”

Of course, safe construction and operation is still a factor in the exclusion zone. The recent completion of the New Safe Confinement (NSC), a massive, high-tech shelter built to protect the hastily-entombed remains of Chernobyl’s reactor 4, may offer some assurance to investors that the radioactivity of the environment will be stable for the foreseeable future. The €1.5 billion ($1.58 billion) NSC, built by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, is intended to prevent any spontaneous radioactive release from reactor 4 for the next 100 years.

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