The 2021 Performance Program of Turkey’s Energy and Natural Resources Ministry has drawn a road map for the completion of the country’s first nuclear power plant, the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), which says 27.5% of the plant will be completed by the end of this year.
The program, which outlines the steps that will be taken in the energy sector this year, determined the country’s targets for the development and coordination of the nuclear power plant and nuclear infrastructure for 2021.
According to this year’s performance program, 16.25% of the plant, including construction, permits, licenses and approvals, was completed at the end of last year. This considers very favorably with the forecast of last year’s program, which estimated progress at less than half of this, at 8%.
For 2021, the performance program last year determined progress at 16%, but this has been revised up in this year’s program to 27.5%.
Under this year’s performance program, while the estimated completion rate for 2022 is determined as 41.25%, project progress of 56.25% is expected in 2023.
The start of operation for the first of the plant’s four VVER-1200 reactors is scheduled for 2023. All the remaining three units are due to start operation by the end of 2026, at a rate of one per year to ultimately have a total installed capacity of 4,800 megawatts.
