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Litgrid System Management Center for continuous monitoring, November 19. 2:11 pm recorded data showing electricity generation and grid access at the Belarusian nuclear power plant (CN) in Astrava. Litgrid was not officially informed of the changes. The power plant was operating at about 350 MW on Thursday morning.
The Belarusian nuclear power plant, which is in the testing phase, began generating electricity for the first time and supplying it to the grid on November 3, and production stopped on November 8.
In compliance with the requirements of the Law of Necessary Measures to Protect Against Unsafe Threats from Nuclear Power Plants in Third Countries, on November 3. Litgrid has established a capacity of 0 MW for commercial electricity flow from Belarus. Once zero bandwidth is established, electricity market participants cannot conduct commercial electricity exchanges between Belarus and Lithuania.
According to the law, Litgrid also does not provide Belarus with an emergency power reserve, which is maintained in the storage capacity of the Kruonis power plant.
As BNS recalls, on November 3, Litgrid established a zero capacity for commercial electricity flow from Belarus, so market participants cannot trade Belarusian electricity. However, the Lithuanian electricity market regulator and some politicians claim that Lithuanian consumers pay for the electricity from the Astravas nuclear power plant because it physically flows to Lithuania and the trading of this electricity takes place in Latvia. The Minister of Energy, Žygimantas Vaičiūnas, ensures that Belarusian electricity is not marketed in Lithuania and that consumers do not pay for it.
Belarus’ Ministry of Energy announced on November 9 that the power plant needed to replace “some electrical metering equipment,” but did not give reasons.
The Belarusian media reported that several voltage transformers had exploded at the power plant and as a result the turbine of the first reactor was turned off, but this information was not officially confirmed.
The State Atomic Energy Safety Inspectorate (VATESI) recently demanded that European nuclear safety regulators suspend the operation of the Astravas nuclear power plant and resolve nuclear safety issues as soon as possible.
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