Hitachi and Orlen Synthos Green Energy are developing strategic cooperation for the development of the SMR fleet in the areas of IT, engineering services and power connections. Hitachi Europe has just implemented a secure documentation repository for OSGE and is beginning work on a comprehensive application architecture for OSGE.
In February this year, the regional headquarters of the Hitachi Group – Hitachi Europe Ltd. Branch i Poland signed an agreement with Orlen Synthos Green Energy (OSGE), under which the two companies began strategic cooperation in the field of technology and services in the area of ‘nonnuclear’ solutions. Subsequently, the two companies formed several working groups that began work to support the development of the SMR project at OSGE. The scope of the working groups’ activities included IT infrastructure, IT architecture, power connections, fixed asset management and cybersecurity.
“Orlen Synthos Green Energy is a strategic customer and business partner for us. The Hitachi Group can support the SMR project in many areas, using its potential in Poland as well as global experience in the field of nuclear energy, energy transmission and IT. The project with OSGE is of key importance to the green transformation of the Polish energy sector, which is why we will support and promote it with all our strength,” said Tadeusz Woszczyński, General Manager for Poland, Austria and Central and Eastern Europe at Hitachi Europe Ltd.
OSGE is successively implementing a project to build a fleet of SMRs in Poland based on GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy BWRX-300 reactor technology. OSGE is currently conducting activities related to the licensing of this technology and environmental procedures. In December 2023, the Ministry of Climate and Environment issued decisions in principle for the implementation of the project in six locations: Włocławek, Ostrołęka, Stawy Monowskie, Dąbrowa Górnicza, Kraków – Nowa Huta and Stalowa Wola – Tarnobrzeg. The company is working intensively on the possibilities of investing and building SMRs also in other European markets, including amongst others the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom.
“The cooperation with the Hitachi Group, which is natural when choosing the BWRX-300 technology, is a very strong point of our project to build small modular reactors. We are already benefiting from the experience and know-how developed around the world and, above all, the presence in Poland, and I am convinced that as our activities progress, the scope of cooperation between OSGE and Hitachi will only continue to grow,” said Rafał Kasprów, President of the Management Board of Orlen Synthos Green Energy.
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