Record-high 4.5 million MWh generated by Kozloduy NPP in Q1 2011

Kozloduy NPP generated 4.5 million MWh of electricity in the Q1 2011, 297,000 MWh more than in the same period of last year, setting a record for the operation of the power plant’s units V and VI. If this electricity was sold on the open market alone, Kozloduy’s proceeds would had been up by BGN 20 mln, the company specified.

The generators have not stopped operation this year due to failures of equipment, while in the first quarter of last year units had stopped working briefly on three occasions. Then, the plant succeeded to produce and supply for the country’s needs 4.2 million MWh of electricity.

Kozloduy’s head Kostadin Dimitrov has already told Klassa that he expected the company to net a profit of about BGN 65 million for 2010. He explained that the plant would demand from the State Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (SEWRC) to reduce its quota for the regulated market because some about 70% of electricity produced is now earmarked for protected consumers.

“A panel of experts from the Association of European Nuclear Regulators will propose by May how to prepare the stress tests for nuclear plants in Europe,” the Association’s Chairman Jukka Laaksonen, told BNR. He explained that the tests would be based on physical inspections in the plants and would probably continue for about six months. Laaksonen was adamant that there would be no reason for freezing the construction of new nuclear facilities and that there would be no failed plants at the stability tests.

“If a plant shows some deficiencies during the tests, this would mean that the operator must take additional security measures,” explained Laaksonen. He expects inspections would find an isuee that needs to be improved in each of the plants, but it could be corrected within a year or two years, without decommissioning the respective nuclear power station.

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