TURKEY: Consultant appointed for nuclear plant

13 February 1998
NEWS

Spain's Empresarios Agrupados International has been awarded the consultancy contract for Turkey's first nuclear power plant at Akkuyu on the Mediterranean coast.

The Madrid-based company submitted a bid of $530,000 in August. Nine other firms submitted prices, including Germany's Lahmeyer International, the US' Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation and Switzerland's Electrowatt Engineering Services.

The consultant will help Turkish Electricity Generation & Transmission Corporation (TEAS) evaluate bids for the construction of the plant.

Three consortia submitted bids to build the plant last October. A consortium led by the French/German Nuclear Power International is said to be frontrunner for the project. It submitted a bid of $0.026 per kWh for a 1,500-MW plant, and $0.023 per kWh for a 3,000-MW plant. Other members of the consortium are Siemens and Hochtief, both German, the Anglo/French GEC Alsthom and Turkish contractors Garanti Koza, Simko, Tekfen and Sezai Turkes-Feyzi Akkaya.

The other two consortia were led by Canada's AECL and the US' Westinghouse Electric Corporation (MEED 24:10:97).

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