{"id":12926,"date":"2026-11-12T08:01:51","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T08:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=12926"},"modified":"2026-11-12T08:01:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T08:01:51","slug":"romanias-cernavoda-npp-started-production-and-will-operate-at-full-capacity-on-november-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=12926","title":{"rendered":"Romania\u2019s Cernavoda NPP started production and will operate at full capacity on November 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unit 2 was already synchronised with the national power grid and started delivering energy on November 11.<\/p>\n<p>The company said the delay at Unit 1 is due to the fact that remedial work is taking longer to complete, in accordance with nuclear safety regulations. Unit 1 is due to reach nominal power on November 14.<\/p>\n<p>The document, signed by General Manager Mihai Lauren\u0163iu Gioara, does not provide details about the nature of the remedial work nor about the effect of the shutdown on the company&#8217;s production, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zf.ro\/companii\/energie\/nuclearelectrica-amana-zi-reconectarea-unitatii-1-cernavoda-finalizarea-lucrarilor-remediere-reactorul-revine-sistemul-energetic-national-13-noiembrie-atinge-puterea-nominala-14-noiembrie-23279778?mc_cid=1f4fe3a456&amp;mc_eid=cd1f92f96c\">Ziarul Financiar<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Both units at Cernavod\u0103 have 700 MW each, making them the largest generating groups in the Romanian energy system. Overall, Cernavoda NPP accounts for some 18% of the country\u2019s electricity production. Due to low Danube levels unable to provide the necessary cooling water, they were shut down in late July and mid-August, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The shutdown of the nuclear power plant has had significant effects on the energy market, as it removed the country&#8217;s largest source of dispatchable electricity generation from the grid. Romania became more dependent on imports during evening hours, contributing to higher spot-market prices, which have increasingly been reflected in consumer bills.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unit 2 was already synchronised with the national power grid and started delivering energy on November 11. The company said the delay at Unit 1 is due to the fact that remedial work is taking longer to complete, in accordance with nuclear safety regulations. Unit 1 is due to reach nominal power on November 14. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}