Haiyang Nuclear Power Plant

Groundbreaking happened one month ahead of schedule on July 30, 2008. Construction of the first unit began in September 2009. Civil construction of Unit 1 was completed 29 March 2013. Fuel loading at Haiyang 1 began on June 22, 2018. First grid connection was on 17 August 2018. 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. 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. As well as generating electricity, the reactors at Haiyang also power a district heating system. On July 7, 2022, construction began on unit 3 after authorization had been granted. == Reactor data ==

In September 2020, the plant's owner and a thermal company instigated a plan to heat all of Haiyang city via heat exchange. 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. The switch to clean energy By November 2022, the plant used 345 MW-thermal effect to heat 200,000 homes, replacing 12 coal heating plants. ==See also==