AKKUYU NÜKLEER A.Ş, the operator of the Turkish Akkuyu nuclear power plant project, has signed an agreement with the Turkish electricity transmission corporation – Teiaş, to connect the Akkuyu nuclear power plant to the national energy grid.
“The agreement will allow AKKUYU NÜKLEER and Teiaş to carry out work on a full scale to establish a power distribution department to connect the Akkuyu nuclear power plant, which includes six high-voltage power lines, to the energy supply system in Turkey,” Akkuyu announced in a statement.”
At the end of 2018, the Turkish Atomic Energy Agency issued a so-called limited permit to build the second unit of the Akkuyu plant, which is in fact a preliminary document that allowed the start of construction of the facilities of the second unit without installing the reactor itself.
Worth mentioning that the construction of unit 1 at Akkuyu nuclear power plant, had begun in April 2018. The project includes four nuclear power units with Russia’s 3+ generation VVER 1200 reactors. The cost of the project is estimated at about $ 20 billion.
