“In order to implement this project, it is planned to attract borrowed financing. Previously, investments in the project are estimated at € 600 - 700 million, ”- quotes the representative of the TASS Cabinet.
According to Prikhodko, Inter RAO - Export and the Cuban state-owned electricity company Energoimport have already agreed on a project roadmap.
It is expected that the contract for the performance of work at TPPs "East Havana", "Maximo Gomez" and "Antonio Maseo" will be signed in March 2020.
At the same time, as RIA Novosti reports, Prikhodko confirmed Russia's readiness to become a strategic partner of Cuba in creating its own nuclear energy, if that is interested in this.
“There are prerequisites for this, including the personnel corps of highly professional Cuban physicists and nuclear engineers trained in Soviet and Russian universities,” he said.
Earlier it became known that Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will visit Cuba on October 3-4.
On September 20, a meeting of the Russian-Cuban intergovernmental commission chaired by Vice Prime Minister Yuri Borisov and Vice President of the Council of Ministers of Cuba, Ricardo Cabrisas, was held in Moscow, during which trade and economic cooperation in the field of energy, railway infrastructure, production and agriculture was discussed.