The damage from the fact that the PAVETS "Chaira" is not working is great - in certain periods we have to import balancing and peak energy from neighboring countries.
This is what energy expert Elenko Bozhkov told BNR and emphasized:
"The renovation of PAVETS "Chaira" from 2022 under all governments it was taken under special surveillance. ... This repair was financed with money from the non-nuclear window of the "Kozloduy" fund.
According to him, it is probably 2-3 times, and maybe even more, more expensive to import balancing and peak energy from neighboring countries than if we were arbitrary with similar energy balancing capacities.
Elenko Bozhkov predicts that after the visit of the Acting Minister of Energy to Japan, it is likely that the opportunities to work with "Toshiba" will be opened, because they have declared their readiness to help:
"For them to stay away, there must have been some reason. Most likely, they had to participate on an equal footing in the public procurements that were for the repair, even though they are the manufacturers, main designer and supplier of the main equipment of the PAVEC. Or they were underestimated for their possible participation by the then managements of NEC and the Bulgarian Energy Holding".