PRAGUE, June 28 (Reuters) - Czech nuclear power plant Temelin will reconnect its Unit 2 to the grid on Saturday night but plans to shut down its Unit 1 for refuelling at the end of July, owner CEZ <CEZPsp.PR> said on Saturday.
Unit 2, one of two 1,000 megawatt blocks at the station, had been closed for refuelling since early May.
'Preparation works are going on to connect Unit 2 to the grid in the night from Saturday to Sunday,' Temelin spokesman Marek Svitak said.
Temelin's second unit would be reconnected at 50 percent of output and should reach 100 percent in the middle of next week.
'We will also close the Unit 1 for nearly three months at the end of July due to regular refuelling,' Svitak said. (Reporting by Martin Dokoupil; Editing by Alan Raybould) For main central European company news, double click on [.CEE] E.Europe hot stocks [HOT-EEU] Main E.Europe news [TOP/EAST] Related stories on [HU] [PL] [CZ] [EEU-STX] [EEU-RES] [EEU-E] For real-time index quotes, double click in brackets: Warsaw WIG20 <.WIG20> Budapest BUX <.BUX> Prague PX <.PX> Keywords: CEZ/TEMELIN tf.TFN-Europe_newsdesk@thomson.com hjp COPYRIGHT Copyright Thomson Financial News Limited 2008. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Thomson Financial News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Thomson Financial News.
Unit 2, one of two 1,000 megawatt blocks at the station, had been closed for refuelling since early May.
'Preparation works are going on to connect Unit 2 to the grid in the night from Saturday to Sunday,' Temelin spokesman Marek Svitak said.
Temelin's second unit would be reconnected at 50 percent of output and should reach 100 percent in the middle of next week.
'We will also close the Unit 1 for nearly three months at the end of July due to regular refuelling,' Svitak said. (Reporting by Martin Dokoupil; Editing by Alan Raybould) For main central European company news, double click on [.CEE] E.Europe hot stocks [HOT-EEU] Main E.Europe news [TOP/EAST] Related stories on [HU] [PL] [CZ] [EEU-STX] [EEU-RES] [EEU-E] For real-time index quotes, double click in brackets: Warsaw WIG20 <.WIG20> Budapest BUX <.BUX> Prague PX <.PX> Keywords: CEZ/TEMELIN tf.TFN-Europe_newsdesk@thomson.com hjp COPYRIGHT Copyright Thomson Financial News Limited 2008. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Thomson Financial News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Thomson Financial News.