KIEV, Jan. 16 – Ukraine's State Agency for Managing the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone has extended the deadline for submitting bids for the allocation of land parcels to build solar power plants in the Chernobyl zone until March 1.

"Taking into account many requests from foreign investors to increase the terms for submitting bids to implement the solar power plant projects in the exclusion zone… it was decided to postpone the deadline for submitting the bids until March 1 [initially it was planned to finish it on January 1]," the press service of the agency reported.