After an 11-day trial period, the test operation will end and energy production will once more be halted.

On Tuesday, when its trial operation resumes following the break, Olkiluoton the triple reactor will begin generating power once more. When damage was discovered to the impellers of the feed water pumps for the power plant’s turbine plant in October, the trial run had to be stopped.

The nuclear power plant’s owner, Teollisuuden Voima (TVO), said last week that Olkiluoto 3 will begin producing regular electricity on March 8. Previously, TVO predicted that commercial filming will begin on February 6.

TVO: The beginning of Olkiluoto 3’s commercial electricity generation has been delayed until March.

According to TVO, the trial run will generate about 1.3 terawatt hours of electricity. There must be completed at the plant another ten key tests before commercial power generation can begin.

Regularly, Olkiluoto 3 is not fully utilized during the peak winter consumption period due to the deferral of power generation to March. The heating industry normally experiences peak demand between January and February.

The test operation will continue with an 11-day test period, during which Olkiluoto 3’s output capacity would fluctuate significantly, according to the business. Following the full power tests, power production will be shut down for around four weeks so that the feedwater pumps can be inspected and the plant unit can be restarted.

Olkiluoto 3 will then go into a production phase that lasts for about a month, during which it will mostly produce electricity at full capacity.

Correction made on December 26 at 2:38 p.m.: Instead of terawatt hours, as stated earlier in the article, around 1.3 terawatts of power are generated.

Correction: Instead of terawatts as mentioned earlier in the story, around 1.3 terawatt-hours of power are generated.