27 Apr (NucNet): Italian utility Enel SpA and Russia’s Inter RAO have signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate in future projects including the possible construction of a nuclear power plant in Kaliningrad.
Enel and Inter RAO executives signed the memorandum during an official visit by Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin to Italy, where he met with Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Enel said it will study the technical, economic and regulatory aspects of the Kaliningrad project in order to evaluate the “conditions and forms” of its possible participation in the venture.
A “significant proportion” of the electricity that could be produced at the Kaliningrad plant will be exported to nearby European markets, Enel said.
In October 2009 Mr Putin approved the construction of a new twin-unit nuclear power plant in Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave that lies between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea.
The first unit is scheduled to be built from 2010-2016 and the second from 2012-2018. Russia’s state nuclear energy company Rosatom said the units would be VVER-1200s.
Enel has a 12.5 percent stake in the Flamanville-3 European pressurised water reactor (EPR) being built by Electricité de France in Normandy.
It is also constructing, through its subsidiary Slovenske Elektrarne, two VVER-440 units at Slovakia’s Mochovce plant.
>>Related reports in the NucNet database (available to subscribers)
Enel Signs Agreement For 12.5% Stake In Flamanville EPR (News No. 253, 30 November 2007)
Contract Signed For Completion Of Mochovce Units (News in Brief No. 76, 17 June 2009)
