Alexander Perov, senior expert of National Energy Security Foundation

– Tver NPP project will give new jobs and more tax revenues to the region

Public hearings on the preliminary environmental impact assessment of the project to build and operate Tver Nuclear Power Plant will be held in Udomlia district July 8 2009.

The construction of Tver Nuclear Power Plant is, first of all, a source of new job and more tax revenues for Tver region. Now that the crisis is at its peak, we urgently need new power generating capacities. Energy is a product and there will always be demand for it: people need light and heat irrespective of crises. So, I think that the launch of Tver NPP will become a historic event for the region.

Today, when many regions are finding it increasingly difficult to secure money for their budgets, this project will give an additional impulse to all the other sectors of the economy.

This project is a great advantage for Tver region. The region will become a reliable supplier of energy for the whole central Russia and will be able to significantly increase its revenues.

Note

For 25 years already Udomlia has hosted Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant. The federal target program for the development of Russia’s nuclear industry in 2007–2010 and -2015 stipulates the construction of a new Tver Nuclear Power Plant several kilometers from Kalinin NPP. In Nov 2007 Director General of Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation Sergey Kiriyenko approved a declaration of intention to finance the construction of nuclear reactors in Tver region. In Oct 2008 this document was approved by Governor of Tver region Dmitry Zelenin. In the spring 2009 the Assembly of Deputies of Udomlia district gave preliminary consent to the construction of Tver NPP in the territory of the district.