The Czech government has announced the expansion of the current tender for the construction of a new 1.2 GW in Dukovany by seeking bids for up to four nuclear reactors. The expansion comes as a strategy to cut prices per block by seeking binding bids for more than one unit, which should allow to choose the supplier and whether to build more reactors or not according to the offers received. With this, the national power utility ČEZ has invited South Korean KHNP and French EDF to send their amended bids by 15 April 2024, while Westinghouse's bid did not meet the requirements.
In March 2022 the Czech power utility ČEZ, through its affiliate Elektrárna Dukovany II (EDU II), launched a tender for the construction of a new 1.2 GW nuclear power plant in Dukovany (Dukovany-5). Originally the contracts were expected to be finalised in 2024 with construction scheduled to start in 2029, and commissioning in 2036. ČEZ received bids from the US-Canadian company Westinghouse, France's EDF, and Korea's KHNP for the development of Dukovany-5. Czechia aims to rise the share of nuclear power from 35% in 2013 to between 46% to 58% by 2040 (37% in 2022).
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