1. Turkey Advances First Nuclear Plant, Eyes New 4.4GW Project

    ...actor in 2017. Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Itochu Corporation and France’s GDF Suez and Areva were awarded a contract last year to build four 1.1GW nuclear plants at Sinop, with the first scheduled for start-up in 2023 (MEES, 10 May 2013). Long-Term Needs Turkey’s 9.2GW of ap...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 49
    Published at Fri, 05 Dec 2014
  2. Turkey Bags More CCGT Funding, Russia Pledges Gas

    ...the plant in 2017 (MEES, 7 November). EBRD says it will provide a loan of $250mn, comprising $200mn from its own account and $50mn syndicated to Banque Saudi Fransi. The latter is also providing parallel financing of $100mn under a murabaha Islamic financial instrument, says EBRD. The Wo...

    Volume: 57
    Issue: 49
    Published at Fri, 05 Dec 2014