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Finland Starts Backup Power Plants Amid Olkiluoto Outage

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Fingrid has started up backup power plants to maintain the electricity balance following the outage at the Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor on Monday, it said in a statement.

  • Finland’s Olkiluoto 3 nuclear is scheduled to be offline until Tuesday morning after a turbine failure was reported on Monday morning, Gassco remit data showed.
  • The issue is currently being investigated, operator TVO said via X.
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Fingrid has started up backup power plants to maintain the electricity balance following the outage at the Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor on Monday, it said in a statement.

  • Finland’s Olkiluoto 3 nuclear is scheduled to be offline until Tuesday morning after a turbine failure was reported on Monday morning, Gassco remit data showed.
  • The issue is currently being investigated, operator TVO said via X.