The government of Poland has selected the US energy company Westinghouse Electric to build the country’s first nuclear power plant, which will initially host three AP1000 reactors. Westinghouse was competing with France’s EDF and South Korea's state-owned Korea Hydro Nuclear Power, which respectively proposed EPR reactors and APR1400 reactors for the project.
Westinghouse is expected to start construction of the first plant in 2026, in a location near the Baltic Sea coast in Choczewo, 80 km west of the city of Gdansk (northern Poland). The plant is expected to start supplying electricity in 2033.
Subsequently to this announcement, the Polish private sector energy group ZE PAK and the Polish state-owned power company PGE have signed a memorandum of understanding with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power to work on a separate second nuclear plant in Patnow (southern Poland), after the South Korean company was not chosen for the first nuclear plant project.
To reduce its dependency on coal, Poland aims to build four to six nuclear reactors between 2026 and the mid-2040s, for a total capacity of 6 to 9 GW.
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