Westinghouse Electric Company (United States) and state-owned Polish utility Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe (PEJ) have signed a contract covering covers front-end engineering, early procurement work and programme development to advance Poland’s new nuclear energy programme. In November 2022, the Polish government selected Westinghouse to build the country’s first nuclear power plant, which will initially host three AP1000 reactors.
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 project is expected to start supplying electricity in 2033. PEJ is a special purpose to develop the country's nuclear programme owned by the Polish state-owned power utility PGE (70%), in partnership with Tauron Polska Energia, ENEA, and copper mining company KGHM Polska (10% each)
To reduce its dependency on coal, which accounted for 70% of the country’s power mix in 2021, 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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