Parliament will likely adopt by the end of the year draft legislation for the construction of a nuclear power plant, economy minister Ante Šušnjar said.
The ministry of economy has set up a working group drafting the nuclear energy law, Šušnjar said late on Thursday evening.
For more than 40 years, Croatia has been the co-owner of the Krško nuclear power plant in neighbouring Slovenia, which supplies about 16% of the country’s energy needs.
…and then they become a big problem when you have moments of energy overproduction by renewables and spot market prices zero out. Then you’d wish to stop producing at a loss, but that’s impossible. Bulgaria’s strategy is to combine nuclear with pumped hydro. However, when you have reached a pumped hydro capacity that could do weekly balancing (the current strategic objective in Bulgaria), you don’t really need nuclear anymore.