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Hualong One Reactor is Now Supplying Energy

Unit 3 of the power plant, Fangchenggang has now been hooked up to the grid for the very first time. CGN has announced that the unit, which is the first of two, has been scheduled to connect in the second half of the year 2023. The pressurised reactor has been synchronised with the grid and it has helped to make the unit generate electricity. The main reason why so much effort is being put into this development is that they want it to facilitate commercial operations with a high focus on efficiency. Concrete was poured for the island of the Unit 3 location and this helped to lay down the foundation. It is currently 39% owned by an investor, known as the Guangxi Investment Group. The remainder is owned by the CGN group. Unit 4 has now been poured and it was anticipated that Unit 3 would start up in the year 2019, with the next unit launching in 2020. Unfortunately, the pandemic happened and this meant that both had to be pushed back. They have now launched in 2022. CGN chose to make the announcement and they have said that the pandemic hit them hard and that Unit 4 is now set to launch in 2024. That being said, this could change again if things do not go to plan. The two groups have done what they can to try and make sure that the reactors are launched in a good time window but right now it looks like the delays have set everything back a bit. Even though one of them is now supplying energy, the other may need a bit more time but when they are both active this is going to mark a huge movement for the energy sector.

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