Good news for energy - Danish Management Group has been shortlisted for the project Support to Energy Policy of Armenia with a budget of EUR 1 million. Danish Energy Management is lead and our partner is the National Nuclear Corporation Ltd. from the UK.

This contract will have 2 components. The first will deal with the decommissioning of the Medzamor Nuclear Power Plant (MNPP) and will focus on:
(a) assistance to the GoA in identifying the most suitable decommissioning strategy; and
(b) assistance to the GoA in preparing and adopting, when possible, the relevant legal documents and normative acts.

All the results will be summed up in a Decommissioning Action Plan (DAP) to be prepared by the contractor.

The second component will deal with the development of alternatives to nuclear energy and will focus on:
(a) the assessment of the potential of development of renewable energies around the Sevan Lake, in anticipation of feasibility studies to be prepared by the contractor for the most promising projects;
(b) which will then be presented by the GoA with the assistance of the contractor;
(c) to the EU Member States in view of financing in the frame of the Kyoto Protocol.

The other shortlisted consortia are:
1. Fichtner GmbH & Co. KG (Germany)
 
2. Kraftanlagen Nukleartechnik KNT(Germany)
Plejades GmbH Independent Experts (Germany)
 
3. Lahmeyer International GmbH (Germany) 
RWE Nukem GmbH (Germany) and Grant Thornton Amyot (Armenia)
           
4. Serco Ltd (Serco Assurance Division) (UK)
British Nuclear Group Project Services Ltd. (UK)
IPA Energy Consulting Ltd (UK)
 
5. SOFRECO (France)
TVO Nuclear Services (Finland) and ICCS-NTUA (Greece)
 
6.  Sogin S.p.A. (Italy) in consortium with DECON (Germany)
ERI - "Scientific Research Institute of Energy" - CJSC  (Armenia)
 
7.  Suez-Tractebel (Belgium)
Ecofys (Denmark)