European investor to express interests in Belene NPP within days

“A European investor has shown interest in the financing of the Bulgarian 51% stake in the Belene Nuclear Power Plant (NPP),” said for Klassa daily Bogomil Manchev, Chairman of the Bulgarian Atomic Forum, but he did not reveal who the investor is. “However, company’s representatives are going to visit Bulgaria literally within days,” said Manchev. The Finnish Fortum company and the French Altran Technology consultancy have shown interest in participating in the Belene NPP project so far ."They wish to purchase shares larger than 1%, but this requires that the Bulgarian Government makes the decision to establish the Belene project company. “This would not cost anything to the Bulgarian side,” experts say. “Fortum can take a stake of over 20% in the future company and Altran - about 10%. So, the Russian side will remain with a stake of about 15%, which is acceptable by the EU,” commented Manchev further.

According to him, Brussels does not accept  the current structure of the project - the Russian Atomstroyexport to build the plant, while the Rosatom company to become an investor in it. “In practice, the Russian side will manage the plant initially, until the loan for its construction is paid,” said Manchev. The EU was not  agin the project while the German RWE was a strategic investor in the plant, and even the technology was approved. The German company, however, withdrew from the project two years ago, because of worries about the structure of the project company.

“The project for the construction of the Belene NPP could be terminated due to political reasons,” said yesterday for Klassa daily other sources from the energy circles. According to them, it is expected that the European Union will demand from Bulgaria to cancel the construction of its second NPP because it applies Russian technology.

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