Russia's national nuclear energy company, Rosatom, plans to sell a 49
percent stake in Turkey's Akkuyu nuclear power plant project to
investors, according to Anastasia Polovinkina, Rosatom's subsidiary
Rusatom Energy International's director for debt finance and investment
analysis on Monday.
The plant is estimated to meet around 6-7 percent of Turkey's electricity demand.
The
Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant will have a capacity of 4,800 megawatts in
four units and a working lifetime of 8,000 hours per year.
On June
15, Turkish Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EMRA) granted an
electricity generation license to the Akkuyu Nuclear Company for a
period of 49 years for its Akkuyu project in the southern Turkish
province of Mersin.
No further details from the interested parties
or the size of investments were given, however, Polovinkina said that
51 percent of the remaining shares would remain with Rosatom.
Late
last year, Rosatom officials had discussions with a Turkish consortium
of contracting conglomerates, Cengiz-Kolin-Kalyon, for the sale of an
undisclosed stake in the project.
(Anadolu Agency, 19 June, 2017)