OL3 EPR regular production of electricity starts in February 2022
Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) has received an updated re-baseline schedule on the commissioning of the OL3 EPR plant unit from the supplier Areva-Siemens consortium. According to the schedule fuel will be loaded into the reactor in March 2021, the unit will be connected to the grid in October of the same year, and regular electricity production starts in February 2022.Issues that have caused delays in the project schedule are slowly progressing system testing, technical problems that have been identified in tests, and the increase in the amount of maintenance work caused by project delay.