GE (
www.ge.com) has been selected by Teollisuuden Voima (TVO) to continue providing maintenance services at the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant in Finland for the lifetime of the plant’s OL1 and OL2 reactors.
The agreement covers maintenance and services on the plant’s two steam turbines and generator to help ensure reliable operation of the facility until 2038.
Additionally, GE Steam Power will manufacture and install a water-cooled generator rotor to help extend the generator’s operating life and support capacity increases.
TVO vice-president Marjo Mustonen said: “Aligned with Finland’s new energy policies, TVO is committed to help in delivering reliable clean power for the country.
"We continue to rely on GE as our service partner for the Olkiluoto Nuclear Plant; it has the technologies and expertise we need for long-term high-performance operation of the site.”
Under the agreement, GE will perform yearly planned-maintenance inspections on the steam turbines and generator, as well as providing engineering and on-site outage support.
The new generator rotor is scheduled to be delivered and installed in 2023 during the plant’s annual outage.
GE’s local team has been supporting the Olkiluoto plant since it was first started in 1978, and with service agreements since 2000.
The capacity of the plant’s two reactors has increased by more than 30% since the project was first commissioned in 1979 to keep pace with Finland’s growing power needs.
Today, it is generating 1,760MW of CO
2-free power — enough for 16% of the country’s population.