History
Groundbreaking happened one month ahead of schedule on July 30,2008. [5] Construction of the first unit began in September 2009. [6] Civil construction of Unit 1 was completed 29 March 2013. [7] Fuel loading at Haiyang 1 began on June 22,2018. [8] First grid connection was on 17 August 2018. [2] Unit 1 began commercial operation on 22 October 2018. [9]
Construction of unit 2 started in June 2010,at that time the fourth Chinese AP1000 project together with the two units of the Sanmen NPP. [10] Commercial operation began in January 2019,after having completed a full-power test run for a week (168 hours). Both units will provide together about 20 TWh of electricity to the grid of Shandong province. [11]
On July 7,2022,construction began on unit 3 after authorization had been granted.
District Heating
In September 2020,the plant's owner and a thermal company instigated a plan to heat all of Haiyang city via heat exchange. [15] Two months later,700,000 square meters of housing had been heated and the project was en route for completion in its entirety in 2021. [16] [17] The switch to clean energy [15] is expected to eliminate more than 180,000 tonnes of fossil fuel emissions each year,and the corresponding reduction in air pollution is anticipated to save about 600 lives annually. [18] By November 2022,the plant used 345 MW-thermal effect to heat 200,000 homes,replacing 12 coal heating plants. [19]
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