Specialised group prepares the setting up of a project company for the construction of the 7th unit of NPP Kozloduy

The setting up of a project company to construct the 7th unit of NPP Kozloduy has been provided for. In the first stage, it will be 100% owned by our first nuclear power plant. For its implementation, a specialised working group was set up, which is chaired by Valentin Nikolov, Deputy Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism. Next week, the participants will gather to draw up a roadmap of the project. The latter was announced by Nikolov after opening the international forum dedicated to strategic energy challenges in the EU. It was attended by companies from the Visegrad Four including the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia, as well as Bulgaria and Romania.

"Russia has not addressed its official claims against Bulgaria on the NPP Belene project," flatly denied all allegations circulated in the Russian media on that issue Deputy Energy Minister Nikolov. According to him, so far, no one has mentioned anything about Moscow filing claims worth €1 bn against our country. Bulgarian liabilities to Atomstroyexport for the 1st reactor of NPP Belene have not been calculated yet.

CEZ Bulgaria SJC insists that our country must finally introduce real market prices in terms of electricity in order to enable companies to refund the investment expenditures they have incurred, reported Petr Dokladal, Regional Manager for CEZ Bulgaria. He reminded that CEZ has owned TPP Varna since 2005 and, since then, he has been waiting for our country to liberalise the market. "We cannot export electricity to Turkey, Romania and Serbia because we must pay €12 for the transmission of a MW of electricity and, in this case, exports becomes unprofitable," complained Dokladal. He announced that, during this extremely cold winter, TPP Varna prevented the Bulgarian power system from collapsing three times via activating its cold reserve units.

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