Czech Republic / EDF Files Complaint With European Regulator Over Dukovany Nuclear Contract

French company believes South Korea might provide winning bidder KHNP with subsidies

EDF Files Complaint With European Regulator Over Dukovany Nuclear Contract
Czech utility ČEZ has chosen KHNP as preferred bidder to build two nuclear power plants at Dukovany. Courtesy ČEZ.

EDF has filed a complaint with the European Union competition regulator over a Czech utility’s decision to pick a South Korean state-owned group as a preferred bidder for the construction of two reactors at the Dukovany nuclear site.

EDF said in a statement that it wants to ensure that Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power’s (KHNP) offer to ČEZ “respects fundamental European principles, laws and regulations”.

The French state utility, which owns and operates France’s fleet of 56 commercial nuclear power plants, lost the Czech tender against the South Korean group earlier this year.

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