PGE with nuclear operator hopes

Poland’s largetst utility, PGE, has announced that it wants to be an independent nuclear energy operator. “We expect the tender for the project’s engineer/technical adviser to be announced in the third quarter of this year,” PGE’s representatives told a parliamentary committee on energy, Thursday. The project aims to build operational competences “so that PGE can be a fully independent nuclear energy operator,” said PGE’s deputy CEO Dariusz Marzec. Speaking on the reasons for the project, Marzec underlined that due to the EU’s agenda on energy production, the company must be “extremely intrested” in producing energy from high-efficiency conventional energy sources, as well as non-emission sources, such as wind and nuclear power. /jb