Chernobyl has been abandoned for over 30 years. Now, energy companies are developing the site into a solar farm.
Chernobyl is being developed into a solar power site.
Two companies have a contract to start building a one-megawatt solar farm next month, and they’re planning on adding 99 more megawatts in the future.
The Ukrainian government is offering incentives for renewable energy companies to develop the abandoned land.
Over 30 years ago, a radioactive release 10 times larger than the Hiroshima bomb forced hundreds of thousands of people to permanently evacuate the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Now the abandoned site is about to start generating power again. But instead of nuclear energy, Chernobyl will be home to photovoltaic solar panels, Bloomberg reports.
Rodina Energy Group, a Ukrainian firm, and Enerparc Ag, a German clean energy company, have announced the joint development of a $1.2 million project to build a one-megawatt solar farm on the site, just a few hundred feet from the deactivated reactor.
Tech: The site of the world’s worst nuclear meltdown is about to become a solar farm
