COMECA and EDF Energy: Hinkley Point C contract is signed
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On 29 November, COMECA announces it had signed a contract worth €130 million with EDF Energy for the Hinkley Point C (HPC) nuclear power station project in the UK, whose commissioning is scheduled for 2025. The documents were signed in Bristol by Stuart Crooks, Hinkley Point C Managing Director and Gaël de la Rochère, CEO of COMECA.
The Group will design, manufacture and deliver power distribution systems that will feed the entire Hinkley Point C site, the first nuclear power station to be built in the UK for a generation. Electrical equipment supplied will have to meet specific standards and detailed specifications, linked to the stringency of the nuclear sector: significant seismic events resistance up to 6g, short-circuit resistance up to 100,000A…
« This contract is one of the biggest contracts ever signed by COMECA, who will do everything in its power to make a success of this ambitious project, for the UK, for EDF Energy and for our Group» declared Gaël de la Rochère, CEO of COMECA.
Photo: Signing of the contracts, with Stuart Crooks, Hinkley Point C Managing Director and Gaël de la Rochère, CEO of COMECA.