Temelín in Czechia has generated 10 TWh so far this year. Unit 2 to shut down at the end of the week

The Temelín Nuclear Power Plant generated ten terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity in mid-August. It reached this milestone earlier than last year. Modernisations and investments in previous years helped. The ten TWh generated is equivalent to eight months of electricity consumption by all Czech households. Temelín spokesperson Marek Sviták told journalists today. Ten TWh of electricity is equivalent to 61 percent of Temelín’s output last year. At the end of this week, the plant will begin an approximately two-month outage of Unit 2; the outage on Unit 1 lasted from the beginning of April to the beginning of June.

Compared with last year, the plant generated this amount of electricity 11 days earlier. The management of ČEZ’s nuclear division said this was mainly thanks to modernisations. „We want to operate both nuclear power plants for at least 60 years. Temelín still has 40 years of operation ahead of it, and thanks to investments we are able to strengthen safety and increase operational efficiency,“ said Bohdan Zronek, a member of ČEZ’s board of directors and director of its nuclear energy division.