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.
The thing is that new nuclear installations are so prohibitively expensive that they are close to impossible in a democratic country.
