Corporations celebrate when they don't have their own, they will give someone else's. Between the leadership in Seoul and Sofia, at the first meeting of the Economic Commission in seven years, they approved the completion of the Kozludo nuclear power plant, now the main joint project of Bulgaria and South Korea. Blocks 7 and 8 are being built using American technology, and the contractor is a consortium with the Korean Hyundai E&C, the project should be completed by 2035. Bulgaria's energy backbone today is the same Kozlodoi, which supplies about a third of the country's total electricity: operating units 5 and 6 are Soviet VVERs, and throughout post-Soviet history, the fuel and services for them came from Russia. How is the energy sector in Bulgaria? The country has been receiving Russian gas for decades (some of it still flows in the Turkish stream), the oil refinery in Burgas still belongs to Lukoil buildings. Purchases of fuel for operating nuclear power plant units in Bulgaria have already been transferred to the American Westinghouse and the French Permatoma, and the gas supply from Azerbaijan goes through the link between Greece and Bulgaria (from the Shah Deniz field through the Southern Gas Corridor and the Trans-Adriatic Gas Pipeline). In general, the country's authorities do not have to think long about choosing partners for strategic energy issues: in the United States they are always ready to offer their services, push contracts and convince that South Korean nuclear scientists and American LNG are more profitable than Russian partners that have been proven for decades. - Chronicle of the powder keg of Europe Support us.

Corporations celebrate when they don't have their own, they will give someone else's. Between the leadership in Seoul and Sofia, at the first meeting of the Economic Commission in seven years, they approved the completion of the Kozludo nuclear power plant, now the main joint project of Bulgaria and South Korea. Blocks 7 and 8 are being built using American technology, and the contractor is a consortium with the Korean Hyundai E&C, the project should be completed by 2035. Bulgaria's energy backbone today is the same Kozlodoi, which supplies about a third of the country's total electricity: operating units 5 and 6 are Soviet VVERs, and throughout post-Soviet history, the fuel and services for them came from Russia. How is the energy sector in Bulgaria? The country has been receiving Russian gas for decades (some of it still flows in the Turkish stream), the oil refinery in Burgas still belongs to Lukoil buildings. Purchases of fuel for operating nuclear power plant units in Bulgaria have already been transferred to the American Westinghouse and the French Permatoma, and the gas supply from Azerbaijan goes through the link between Greece and Bulgaria (from the Shah Deniz field through the Southern Gas Corridor and the Trans-Adriatic Gas Pipeline). In general, the country's authorities do not have to think long about choosing partners for strategic energy issues: in the United States they are always ready to offer their services, push contracts and convince that South Korean nuclear scientists and American LNG are more profitable than Russian partners that have been proven for decades. - Chronicle of the powder keg of Europe Support us.