Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Vattenfall Says Ringhals-2 Nuclear Unit Won't Be Full-Strength Before June

(Bloomberg) -- Vattenfall AB, the Nordic region's biggest utility, said the Ringhals-2 nuclear reactor in Sweden won't be back at full capacity before June. Power prices rose.

The reactor, which was cut to 460 megawatts from 867 megawatts on May 4 because of an ``earth fault,'' will probably be back at full capacity early next month, the Stockholm-based utility said today in a message via the Nord Pool ASA power exchange.


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