LJUBLJANA (Slovenia), January 13 (SeeNews) – Slovenia's sole nuclear power plant (NPP) Krsko plans to produce 5,955 GWh of electricity in 2020, as no regular maintenance works are scheduled during the year, it said.
The power plant beat its production target by 1.89% last year, generating 5,533 GWh of electricity, Krsko said in a statement last week.
On October 29, Krsko said it reconnected to the grid following completion of planned maintenance works which started on October 1. The power plant holds regular maintenance works every 18 months.
Krsko generates some 40% of Slovenia's electricity output. It operates a Westinghouse pressurised light water reactor of 2,000 MW thermal power capacity, which generates over five billion kWh of electricity per year.
The plant is jointly managed by its two owners - Slovenia's GEN Energija and Croatian power utility Hrvatska Elektroprivreda (HEP). The two neighbouring countries share the power plant's output.
Krsko was built in Slovenia near the border with Croatia in the 1970s and launched operations in 1982, when the two countries were still part of the former Yugoslavia.