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Minister: New bids will determine nuclear energy tender model
“If the bids require a system with public partnership in the plant -- in the best interests of the country -- we have the adequate infrastructure to form the basis for such a possibility. If not, we already have a private sector,” the minister noted.
Speaking to reporters in Tripoli on Tuesday, where he was participating in an official visit as part of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s delegation to Libya, Yıldız shared his assessment of the possible direction Turkey will take in acquiring nuclear energy.
He said the eventual decision on whether to include the state as a partner within the new arrangement will be determined at a later stage depending on the requests of the interested parties.
Last week, the Turkish Electricity Trading and Contracting Company (TETAŞ) scrapped the previous tender process by rejecting the bid from a consortium composed of Russian companies Atomstroyexport and Inter RAO UES and the Ciner Group’s Park Teknik, which was the sole bidder in the tender on Sept. 24, 2008. Turkey has had to cancel five tenders since it first started its attempts to have a nuclear plant in the late 1950s.
The new model must be in compliance with the law and it has to be efficient, the minister noted.
When asked if the Council of State’s verdict several weeks ago which invalidated some integral articles in the regulation of nuclear energy power plants helped TETAŞ to scrap the tender process, Yıldız said: “We don’t think this is true. We don’t believe TETAŞ’s decision was easier to make after the Council of State’s decision.”
In response to questions over what Russia is thinking about the renewed tender process, the minister said the Russians were also closely tracking the developments. “We are planning to organize an official visit to Russia in December,” he said, although the date has not yet been set and may be delayed until January.
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