Beaver Valley 1

Operable

Details

Reactor Type	Pressurised Water Reactor (or PWR)
Model	W (3-loop)
Owner	PPL Susquehanna, LLC
Operator	First Energy Nuclear Operating Co.

Timeline

Construction Start	Friday, 26 June 1970
First Criticality	Monday, 10 May 1976
First Grid Connection	Monday, 14 June 1976
Commercial Operation	Friday, 1 October 1976

Specifications

Capacity Net	908 MWe
Capacity Gross	959 MWe
Thermal Capacity	2900 MWt
Design Net Capacity	835 MWe

Operational History

Electricity Supplied (GWh)

Energy Availability Factor (%)

Total Electricity Supplied (GWh)

Reactor History

Year	Reference Unit Power (MWe)	Annual Time Online (Hours)	Electricity Supplied (GWh)	Operation Factor (%)	Energy Availability Annual (%)	Energy Availability Cumulative (%)	Load Factor Annual (%)	Load Factor Cumulative (%)
1976	852	821	504.50	37.20	100.00	100.00	16.10	16.10
1977	843	4312	2870.30	49.20	39.20	51.60	38.90	34.20
1978	800	3569	2481.40	40.70	35.40	44.60	35.40	34.80
1979	815	3498	1778.40	39.90	24.80	38.60	24.90	31.80
1980	811	600	300.70	6.80	6.90	31.20	4.20	25.30
1981	810	6444	4674.70	73.60	73.90	39.20	65.90	33.00
1982	810	3644	2717.40	41.60	41.70	39.60	38.30	33.80
1983	810	5976	4682.20	68.20	68.60	43.60	66.00	38.20
1984	810	6301	4756.84	71.70	71.80	47.00	66.90	41.70
1985	810	8046	5901.46	91.80	91.90	51.80	83.20	46.10
1986	810	6195	4784.15	70.70	70.70	53.70	67.40	48.20
1987	810	7320	5620.94	83.60	84.00	56.40	79.20	51.00
1988	810	6989	4993.62	79.60	79.60	58.20	70.20	52.50
1989	810	5822	3794.29	66.50	66.50	58.90	53.50	52.60
1990	810	8074	6167.05	92.20	92.20	61.20	86.90	55.00
1991	810	4883	3710.88	55.70	55.80	60.80	52.30	54.80
1992	810	8218	6298.39	93.60	93.60	62.80	88.50	56.90
1993	810	5891	4359.75	67.20	67.30	63.10	61.40	57.10
1994	810	6991	5504.38	79.80	79.90	64.00	77.60	58.30
1995	810	6813	5449.22	77.80	77.80	64.70	76.80	59.20
1996	810	7132	5698.05	81.20	81.20	65.60	80.10	60.20
1997	810	4972	4025.78	56.80	56.80	65.10	56.70	60.10
1998	810	3557	2829.29	40.60	40.40	64.00	39.90	59.20
1999	810	7746	6106.21	88.40	88.50	65.10	86.10	60.30
2000	810	7430	5883.02	84.60	84.60	65.90	82.70	61.20
2001	821	7407	5991.02	84.60	84.60	66.60	84.10	62.20
2002	821	8490	6989.86	96.90	97.00	67.80	97.20	63.50
2003	821	7359	5985.36	84.00	84.10	68.40	83.20	64.20
2004	821	8119	6678.55	92.40	92.40	69.30	92.60	65.30
2005	821	8760	7290.28	100.00	100.00	70.30	101.40	66.50
2006	851	6973	5828.55	79.60	79.60	70.60	78.20	66.90
2007	892	8017	7057.66	91.50	91.60	71.40	90.30	67.70
2008	892	8784	7945.03	100.00	100.00	72.40	101.40	68.90
2009	892	7999	7217.48	91.30	91.30	73.00	92.40	69.60
2010	892	7963	7119.41	90.90	90.90	73.50	91.10	70.30
2011	892	8702	7854.57	99.30	99.30	74.30	100.50	71.20
2012	892	8010	7220.58	91.20	91.20	74.80	92.20	71.90
2013	921	7825	6963.06	89.30	89.40	75.20	88.90	72.40
2014	921	8116	7477.39	92.60	92.60	75.80	92.70	72.90
2015	921	7971	7282.19	91.00	91.00	76.20	90.30	73.40
2016	921	8031	7351.14	91.40	91.40	76.60	90.90	73.90
2017	921	8624	7999.17	98.40	98.40	77.20	99.20	74.60
2018	908	8156	7430.72	93.10	93.10	77.60	93.40	75.10
2019	908	8193	7416.90	93.50	93.50	78.00	93.20	75.50
2020	908	8783	8047.73	100.00	100.00	78.50	100.90	76.10
2021	908	8028	7339.79	91.60	91.60	78.80	92.30	76.50
2022	908	7394	6734.41	84.40	84.40	79.00	84.70	76.70