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Overhaul of Gabcikovo hydro-electric power plant distant

The new management of the state-controlled company Vodohospodarska Vystavba has cancelled the international tender for the general overhaul of the Gabcikovo hydro-electric power plant due to many shortcomings and flaws.

EPH and Enel set aside 1.4 billion euros for Mochovce NPP

A spokesman for EPH Daniel Castvaj informed the vEnergetike.sk portal that the 1.47-billion-euro package would be sufficient to cover the completion of the Mochovce project. It also includes a 267-million-euro reserve in case the budget is raised again.
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Slovenske Elektarne encounters complications

Sberbank, which lent money to Slovenske Elektrarne to complete the Mochovce NPP, started requiring not only individual parts of the company as a guarantee, but also the company’s shares, Economy Minister Sulik says.
VLÁDA: Rokovanie 20. schôdze

State energy holding is no longer on the agenda

According to Karol Galek, creation of the state energy holding company in which companies operating on the free market would merge with the regulated ones would only cover up the real situation.
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State carried out insufficient inspection in Mochovce

The Supreme Audit Office of the Slovak Republic (NKU) states that no stances, respectively recommendations of the state representatives that would prove some reservations about the failures in the completion of nuclear units in Mochoce were found.
Atómová elektráreň Mochovce SE

INESS analysts suggest selling power companies

The Economic and Social Analyses Institute (INESS) states that although the two rounds of privatisation in Slovakia were accompanied by scandals and fraud, Slovakia’s economy is now in a better condition than it would be without them.
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Mochovce NPP budget increases again by almost 500 mln euros

The power producer Slovenske Elektrarne will be allowed to start loading nuclear fuel into the third Mochovce nuclear unit at the end of April 2021 at the latest. This will take place only once all the permissions without any objections and challenges of the participants of the proceeding are granted. Nuclear fuel loading will be postponed to July-August 20201 in case of some appeals.
Atómové elektrárne Mochovce

Mochovce NPP units 3 is almost finished, Sulik says

Economy Minister Richard Sulik confirmed that he had received several information in connection with the completion of the Mochovce NPP from the Slovak Intelligence Service (SIS). However, the safety of the nuclear units in Mochovce was not the problem.
Richard Sulík

Mochovce NPP generates more electricity

The Mochovce nuclear unit generates 7 percent more electricity without increasing the reactor’s output, thanks to improved efficiency of the non-nuclear part of the power plant. The electric output of the second Mochovce unit rose from 470 to more than 500 MW.
Atómová elektráreň Mochovce

Needed general overhaul of Gabcikovo PP has not yet started

Five years will have passed in January 2021 since the government led by Robert Fico “in(voluntarily)” took over the operation of the Gabcikovo hydropower plant from the power utility Slovenske Elektrarne and handed it over to the state-controlled company Vodohospodarska Vystavba.
Gabčíkovo vodná elektráreň

PM Matovic is to seek nuclear allies at EU summit

Slovakia’s Prime Minister Igor Matovic wants to establish a nuclear alliance that will protect countries using nuclear energy from being called polluters. Matovic believes that France is our closest ally.
PREMIÉR: Opatrenia počas veľkonočných sviatkov

PM Igor Matovic presents alliance of pro-nuclear countries

According to Slovakia’s Prime Minister Igor Matovic, nuclear energy cannot be regarded as “dirty” as fossil fuels. All previous prime ministers of independent Slovakia had been advocating the development of nuclear energy.
Igor Matovič
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