Financing, Market Design and Project Management in Nuclear New Build

The demand for economically, socially and politically sustainable financing solutions for nuclear new build is now being formulated at the highest policy-making levels. The energy ministers assembled at the Roadmaps to New Nuclear conference, co-hosted by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and France’s Ministry of Energy Transition on 28-29 September 2023, put adequate financing at the centre of their efforts to create the conditions for successful nuclear new build. The financing of new nuclear capacity was also considered an important topic at COP28 (30 November to 12 December 2023).

This report on Financing, Market Design and Project Management in Nuclear New Build continues the work undertaken in the earlier NEA report on Financing New Nuclear Power Plants: Minimising the Cost of Capital by Optimising Risk Management (NEA, 2022). It is also complementary to the NEA report on Nuclear Financing: Effective Frameworks and Strategies for Financing Nuclear New Build (forthcoming, 2024). The specificity of this report is to link the question of financing with the questions of electricity market design and project management, all three of being closely intertwined.

This publication will be available soon.