The Ukrainian Ministry of Regional Development has announced that it wishes to create a solar power station near Chernobyl.

The Chernobyl Solar project involves the construction in an area of ​​2.5 thousand hectares to the south of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It is expected that the solar power station will allow producing 1.5 GW hours of energy per year, and this is tens of millions of dollars. Developers have chosen Chernobyl because lease of land is cheap there, plus necessary infrastructure is already there. The project is certainly interesting, if only because it is unusual. Everything unusual can have a good effect. An example of Israel illustrates this.

Let’s take the solar power plant, located in the Negev desert, as an example. This building is amazing from all points of view: imagine that there are hundreds and hundreds of perfectly smooth mirrors, filling all visible space, right in the dessert. One million square meters - about 400 pitches - is an area of ​​the object. This power station is one of the most advanced in the world. It is like poetry: Israelis use the ancient sun, using cutting-edge technologies.

55 thousand mirrors have already been put there. They reflect the light on the solar tower, which is, by the way, the highest in the world. The mirrors are controlled by computers, and the tower will produce 320 GWh of energy, providing about 120 thousand homes with electricity. The entire project is created under the government program, which involves the transfer of 10% of energy consumed by Israel on the renewable sources.

Israel has already proven the effectiveness of these projects and the government has made them part of a government program. Israelis use only that what is profitable and will bring benefit: why would not we learn such a rational management approach?