Jacek Sasin, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State Assets announced on Sunday, February 20, that Poland is anticipating to commission the first block of a traditional nuclear power plant in 2033. “It was a result of my conversation with the Secretary of Energy Granholm”, said Sasin. He added that during his visit to the USA he had received a promise about a significant share of American capital in the investment. “We were talking about an amount of a billion dollars”, revealed Deputy Prime Minister.
Jacek Sasin also announced that on behalf of the Polish government the matter will be supervised by Minister Piotr Naimski, the government’s plenipotentiary for strategic energy infrastructure.
“First of all, we are currently choosing the financing model. We do not hide from American partners, that we count for their financial participation in that joint Polish-American investment, that the Americans would provide not only technology but also the capital. I received such an assurance of a significant share of capital from the USA. We are talking about a billion dollars”, said Sasin.
As the deputy prime minister assured, the final contractor, a technology supplier on the American side, will be indicated later this year. He also stressed that “Poland needs American capital for geostrategic and political reasons”.
The Minister of State Assets recalled that a few days ago KGHM had signed an agreement with NuScale on the commencement of work on the implementation of SMR modular reactors in Poland.
The Deputy Prime Minister emphasized, that it has signed an agreement that covers the first phase of construction of a nuclear power plant in Poland. The commissioning of the first reactor will take place in 2029.
Jacek Sasin added that the KGHM-NuScale contract is not the only initiative for modular reactors in recent times. PKN Orlen also concluded an agreement a few months ago with a company Synthos Green Energy, which provides for the construction of one reactor. It will be commissioned by the end of the 1920s – said Sasin.
Adrian Andrzejewski