The deadline for submitting binding bids for the state's 66% stake in Slovenske elektrarne, the leading Slovak power producer, has been postponed until July 28. CEZ has recently confirmed that it would bid for all SE assets, i.e. including the nuclear assets. Source: Reuters.
Note that the Slovak Cabinet will give preference to those bidders interested in nuclear assets. So far, three of five bidders (including CEZ) are interested in both the nuclear and non-nuclear parts of SE (the Italian Enel and the Russian RAO UES are reportedly the other two, while the Austrian Verbund and the German E.ON are interested only in non-nuclear assets).
Separately, CEZ is reportedly planning to bid for Poland's state-owned manager and operator of the national transmission grid, PSE, next year, the Rzeczpospolita daily reported, citing CEZ CEO M. Roman. PSE had sales of 15.3bn zloty (USD 4.3bn) in 2003. Source: Bloomberg.
Jan Hajek