China’s State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) has started construction of units 3 and 4 of the Haiyang nuclear power plant (phase 2), totalling 2.5 GW. The two CAP-1000 1.25 GW reactors should produce about 20 TWh/year and are expected to be completed in 2027.
The Haiyang nuclear plant, located in the Shandong province in eastern China, already has a capacity of 2.5 GW through its two AP-1000 reactors (units 1 and 2), that were connected to the grid in 2018. Once phase 2 is completed, the plant is expected to generate 40 TWh annually. A third phase that would add four CAP-1400 reactors is currently being considered.
Simultaneously, the building of a 900 MW long-distance nuclear heating project also began at the Haiyang power plant. The pumped steam heating project is scheduled to be put into operation in 2023.
In June 2022, China started construction of a 1 GW reactor at the Sanmen nuclear plant in Zhejiang, and began commercial operations of unit 6 (1.1 GW) of the Hongyanhe nuclear power plant in Liaoning. In 2021, China’s nuclear capacity reached 53.3 GW (+7% compared to 2020) and its nuclear power generation reached 408 TWh (+11.3% compared to 2020). China targets 200 GW of nuclear capacity by 2035.
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