OREANDA-NEWS. June 09, 2010. A round-table discussion on "Development Aspects of the Kaliningrad Power Supply System in View of Baltic NPP Commissioning" was held in the framework of the International Forum "Atomexpo 2010" in Moscow, in the Central Exhibition Hall "Manezh".

The State Corporation "Rosatom" together with JSC "Inter RAO UES" organized the meeting. Officials of Minenergo, JSC "FSK UES", JSC Concern Rosenergoatom and representatives of infrastructure authorities of Russia and Baltic countries, Russian and foreign grid operators, potential investors, nuclear power consultants, international law and investment counselors, and representatives of big power companies took part in the discussion.

During the meeting they discussed issues of the current state of the Baltic plant construction and its organization charts, the construction of the associated grid infrastructure and attraction of investments. There were presented reports on engineering parameters of Baltic NPP and its power capacity versions, possible directions for commercial power delivery and cooperation prospects between power grids of Russia, Baltic countries, and Europe as well as power strategy of Kaliningrad Region considering the construction of Baltic NPP and grid infrastructure facilities.

Sergey Boyarkin, a program director of the Atomic State Corporation Rosatom, stated that at the end of the first decade of June there would have been built an auxiliary road to connect available communications with the construction site, and at the end of the month construction workers would start a ground level for the reactor building. "More than 400 workers and 109 heavy engineering units have already worked on the construction site. We'll put the first concrete next April", said Sergey Boyarkin having emphasized that all work activities have carefully been within the schedule.

The cost of the Baltic NPP construction is about EUR 5 bln.

"It is intended that the Concern Rosenergoatom will invest 51% and 49% will be invested by one or several private investors including foreign ones", said Maxim Kozlov, a head of the project group "Baltic NPP" of JSC Inter RAO UES.