KYIV, July 31 - The Slovenian company Riko in August this year will begin the construction of a solar power plant with a capacity of 10.6 MW near Zhytomyr, mayor of the regional center Serhiy Sukhomlin, who signed a contract with director of the Slovenian company Janez Skrabec, has said.

"The plant will be built near the village of Hlybochytsia on a plot of 18 hectares. It is planned to complete the work by August 2019 ... Special thanks to the members of the government of the Republic of Slovenia for the issue of EUR3 million grant funds for this project," Sukhomlin wrote on Facebook.