KYIV. Aug 17 (Interfax-Ukraine) – National Energy Company Ukrenergo plans to finish building a 750 kV Zaporizhia nuclear power plant (NPP)-Kakhovska power line and assistant infrastructure by late 2017, acting director of the company Vsevolod Kovalchuk told reporters on Tuesday.
“For the Kakhovka generation system we plan to launch Kakhovska 750 kV substation by the end of this year and build 330 kV power lines from this substation. The whole generation system that would help to transmit electricity generated by Zaporizhia NPP will be finished by the end of next year,” he said.
Kovalchuk said that the implementation of the project would ensure additional 700 megawatt of power to transmit from Zaporizhia NPP.
