JINAN, May 6 （Xinhua）-- An expert panel has given a performance appraisal to approve the Haiyang Nuclear Power Phase I Project to become the first nuclear power project in China to generate fuel for large-scale cogeneration of heat and power.
Located in the city of Haiyang, east China's Shandong Province, the nuclear power plant started providing heating in the 2019-2020 heating season, when it supplied the heating for 700,000 square meters of residential area for 129 days. The energy is equivalent to the consumption of 9,656 tonnes of standard coal.
The expert appraisal will allow the plant to support 30 million square meters of heating area in the next heating season, according to the operator of Shandong Nuclear Power Co., Ltd.
Nuclear energy for heating has been eyed as China's future energy trend to replace the thermal power with clean energy in the north China region.
The company said the nuclear power plant has aimed at providing more than 200 million square meters of heating in the Shandong peninsula. Enditem
