Canadian electric utility Ontario Power Generation (OPG) and Czech state energy company ČEZ have signed an agreement to work together on nuclear energy with the aim of reducing financial, technical and schedule risks to future projects.
The two companies said the agreement includes cooperation on small modular reactors and the sharing of related to the deployment of new nuclear projects.
“We are preparing for the construction of a new nuclear unit in Dukovany and the upcoming allocation of space at Temelín, where the first SMR could be built in the first half of the next decade,” said Tomáš Pleskac, head of the new energy division at ČEZ. “The collaboration with OPG is therefore, for us, a logical step forward.”
The two companies said the agreement includes cooperation on small modular reactors and the sharing of related to the deployment of new nuclear projects.
“We are preparing for the construction of a new nuclear unit in Dukovany and the upcoming allocation of space at Temelín, where the first SMR could be built in the first half of the next decade,” said Tomáš Pleskac, head of the new energy division at ČEZ. “The collaboration with OPG is therefore, for us, a logical step forward.”
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