South Korea’s KHNP to provide two new reactor units for Dukovany
The Czech Republic plans to completely abandon the use of coal by 2033 and increase the share of nuclear power in the energy mix to 68% in the by 2040, up from around 40% today according to an updated national energy plan to the European Commission.
According to the plan, the share of nuclear power should be 44% by 2030.
With Prague planning to begin the construction of new nuclear plants in the near future, that figure will increase to 68% and nuclear energy will become the basis of the country's energy supply, press reports said.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of the Environment worked together on the update, which examines the development of the country’s energy sector to fulfil European Union decarbonisation targets.
Minister of industry and trade Lukas Vlcek said: “Electricity generation will be based on renewables and nuclear, and the role of gas-fired sources can also be expected to increase.”
According to International Atomic Energy Agency data, the Czech Republic’s six existing nuclear plants – four at Dukovany and two at Temelín – provided about 40% of electricity generation in 2023.
In July 2024, state power company ČEZ chose South Korea’s state-run Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power to build two new pressurised water reactor units at Dukovany with deployment planned for the second part of the 2030s.
