Doosan \u0160koda Power has been awarded what\u00a0\u010cEZ describes as the biggest contract for the Czech Republic’s nuclear power plants since they were commissioned.
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The company won the public tender for new generators for the units at Temel\u00edn Nuclear Power Plant. The contract value has not been disclosed beyond it amounts to “to several billion” Czech Koruna. (CZK1 billion is about USD48 million).<\/p>\n
The turbine-generator sets weigh\u00a0more over 2,000 tons, with a\u00a0total length of 65 metres. The generators are directly connected to one high-pressure and three low-pressure turbine sections, and currently supply the grid with a\u00a0nominal 1,086 MW of electricity.<\/p>\n
Daniel Bene\u0161, Chairman\u00a0and CEO of\u00a0\u010cEZ Group, said: “Since the commissioning of our nuclear units, we have managed to increase their output by a\u00a0total of 500 MWe. That\u2019s a\u00a0massive amount of electricity, comparable to a\u00a0large coal-fired power plant – but without added emissions, land use, or other negative impacts. By replacing the generators at Temel\u00edn, we are continuing in this process.”<\/p>\n
The original turbine-generator sets at Temel\u00edn, which are approaching the end of their operational life,\u00a0were supplied by \u0160koda Plze\u0148, which is now part of Doosan \u0160koda Power. The replacements are intended to allow greater output, but also fit with the lifetime extension of the units.<\/p>\n
Doosan \u0160koda Power, which supplies turbine-generator systems to customers worldwide,\u00a0is headquarted in\u00a0Plze\u0148 and is part of South Korean group Doosan Enerbility.<\/p>\n
Seungwoo Sohn, CEO of Power Service Business Group of Doosan Enerbility, said: “We are building on our long-standing cooperation in turbine delivery and service support for Temel\u00edn. But it\u2019s important to note that we succeeded against other global manufacturers, which confirms both our position as one of the world\u2019s leaders in delivering power plant equipment and the strong standing of our Czech company.”<\/p>\n
Four VVER-440 units are currently in operation at the Dukovany site. Two VVER-1000 units are in operation at Temel\u00edn, which came into operation in 2000 and 2002, and the\u00a0aim is for them to\u00a0operate for 60 years.\u00a0The Czech Republic uses nuclear power for 34% of its electricity. In addition to maintaining and upgrading its existing units, the country has plans for new gigawatt units<\/a>, initially at Dukovany, and also for up to 3 GW of small modular reactor capacity<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Doosan \u0160koda Power has been awarded what\u00a0\u010cEZ describes as the biggest contract for the Czech Republic’s nuclear power…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[410,409,408],"class_list":{"0":"post-13737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-doosan","8":"tag-doosan","9":"tag-doosan-enerbility","10":"tag-doosan-group"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}