New-Build Nuclear Power Station Finance Can Risks be Controlled?

Ed Merrow

Independent Project Analysis, Inc. • Because of their long execution times, favourable financing is very important to nuclear station economics The Crux of the Problem • Favourable financing schemes in turn are very dependent on a project’s risk profile

• Unfortunately, it is difficult to find a class of projects with a poorer risk history than nuclear power plants

• Then the key questions become

 Why are nuclear power plant projects so problematic?

 Can the risks be controlled?

2 | Success Rate Defining Success We deem a project to be a Success if all occurred: 100% and Failure 90% Costs Grew (real) Less than 25% 80%

Cost Competitiveness Less than 25% 70% 60% Projects<$500 MM Execution Schedule Slipped Less than 25% 50% 40% Severe and Continuing Operability No Megaprojects Problems (First two years) 30% 20%

10% Nuclear Power Projects (n=74) 0%

3 | Effective Stable Basic Strong integrated Complete Front-end Risk Reduction Shaping Data owner team Loading (FEL)

Requirements • Allocation of project • Early days were • Very few NPP owners • Detailed understanding benefits and costs plagued by constant have had the strong and accounting for the into a configuration design changes project organisations site context for the that is stable and will essential to project • Reasonable stability not collapse and in design now controlling the • Bringing the design to a create turbulence in achieved projects point from which full execution • Cannot field cross- detailed design can functional teams commence at sanction • Have deferred and • Very high levels of lost control to project execution contractors planning, supply chain management, scheduling, controls When these four conditions are met, the megaproject planning, constructability success rate exceeds 80 percent analysis, contracting planning, change management, data There is no reason to believe that NPPs will not follow management the same pattern

4 | Thank you

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