Commercial electricity will be produced by the second 1,000-MW unit at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant by September 2014 while the first unit will generate 1,000 MW of electricity by February 2014.Ninety per cent of the work on the Unit-II has been completed and it could go into production by September.The first unit of the KNPP is likely to begin generating to its full capacity of 1,000 MW by February end.
The capacity of Unit I will be raised gradually from the current 440 MW to, first, 750 MW and then to the maximum 1,000 MW.