AREVA : Finland: AREVA and partners submit commercial bid for a new EPR™ nuclear plant to Fennovoima
02/03/2012 | 02:00pm
AREVA, who leads the EPR™ Project Team, submitted its
commercial bid for the construction of a nuclear power plant
at Pyhäjoki, in North Ostrobothnia, Finland.
With this commercial bid, the EPR™ Project Team's offer
is now completed, following submission of the technical bid
earlier in January which is currently under evaluation by
Fennovoima.
The plant supplier will be selected during 2012-2013. The
schedule for the project as a whole will be defined
during further negotiations.
The scope of the bid covers
the engineering, procurement and construction of
the complete nuclear power plant - including
the reactor and the turbine.
AREVA, who will be in charge of the Nuclear Island, assembled
a strong delivery team made up of world-class French and
German partners who have already worked with AREVA on EPR™
projects for both the Turbine Island and civil works.
"The Fennovoima project will benefit from the experience the
EPR™ Project Team has already gained from the four
EPR™reactors currently under construction in Finland, France
and China. Obviously, having an EPR™ reactor already licensed
and under construction in Finland is a significant
competitive advantage," said Peter Wappler, AREVA's Offer
Director for Fennovoima project.
Fennovoima has already demonstrated its confidence in the
EPR™ design by selecting AREVA in 2008 as one of the two
plant supplier candidates. Since then, technical development
work has been carried out.
This milestone is a clear sign that new build projects are
moving forward worldwide, including in Europe where AREVA is
involved in projects and tenders in the UK, Czech Republic,
Poland and Finland, among others.
FENNOVOIMA is a Finnish nuclear power company funded in 2007
co-owned by Voimaosakeyhtiö SF and E.ON Kärnkraft Finland who
has 34%. Voimaosakeyhtiö SF is itself owned by 69 Finnish
regional and local energy companies as well as companies
in trade and industry. Altogether, Fennovoima
has 70 shareholders.
