Oconee 3

Operable

Details

Reactor Type	Pressurised Water Reactor (or PWR)
Model	B&W; (L-loop)
Owner	Duke Energy Corp.
Operator	Duke Energy Corp.

Timeline

Construction Start	Monday, 6 November 1967
First Criticality	Thursday, 5 September 1974
First Grid Connection	Wednesday, 18 September 1974
Commercial Operation	Monday, 16 December 1974

Specifications

Capacity Net	859 MWe
Capacity Gross	900 MWe
Thermal Capacity	2568 MWt
Design Net Capacity	887 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 (%)
1974	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1975	871	6761	5037.40	77.20	66.10	66.10	66.00	66.00
1976	871	6072	4758.00	69.10	62.20	64.20	62.20	64.10
1977	860	6545	5268.70	74.70	69.90	66.10	69.90	66.00
1978	860	7444	6064.30	85.00	80.50	69.60	80.50	69.60
1979	860	4038	3278.90	46.10	43.50	64.40	43.50	64.40
1980	860	6414	5224.60	73.00	73.80	66.00	69.20	65.20
1981	860	6835	5641.40	78.00	78.60	67.80	74.90	66.60
1982	860	2826	2128.40	32.30	33.50	63.50	28.20	61.80
1983	860	8436	7099.10	96.30	96.50	67.20	94.20	65.40
1984	860	6474	5355.51	73.70	74.20	67.90	70.90	66.00
1985	860	6071	4860.76	69.30	69.70	68.00	64.50	65.80
1986	860	7781	6064.31	88.80	90.00	69.90	80.50	67.00
1987	860	6068	5094.42	69.30	69.80	69.90	67.60	67.10
1988	846	7190	5965.75	81.80	81.90	70.70	80.30	68.00
1989	846	7585	6337.39	86.60	86.60	71.80	85.50	69.20
1990	846	8712	7427.84	99.40	99.40	73.40	100.20	71.10
1991	846	6691	5594.62	76.40	86.60	74.20	75.50	71.30
1992	846	6634	5448.23	75.50	75.50	74.30	73.30	71.40
1993	846	8647	7393.76	98.70	98.70	75.60	99.80	72.90
1994	846	6781	5670.82	77.40	77.50	75.60	76.50	73.10
1995	846	7625	6467.84	87.00	87.10	76.20	87.30	73.80
1996	846	6429	5454.03	73.20	73.20	76.10	73.40	73.70
1997	846	5633	4652.64	64.30	64.60	75.60	62.80	73.30
1998	846	7026	5786.35	80.20	80.10	75.80	78.10	73.50
1999	846	8676	7369.54	99.00	99.00	76.70	99.40	74.50
2000	846	7729	6577.84	88.00	88.00	77.10	88.50	75.00
2001	846	6355	5398.55	72.60	72.60	76.90	72.80	75.00
2002	846	8688	7465.52	99.20	99.20	77.70	100.70	75.90
2003	846	7467	6318.01	85.20	85.20	78.00	85.20	76.20
2004	846	6698	5747.05	76.20	76.30	77.90	77.30	76.20
2005	846	8395	7236.99	95.80	95.90	78.50	97.60	76.90
2006	846	7804	6716.23	89.10	89.10	78.80	90.60	77.30
2007	846	7498	6461.88	85.60	85.60	79.00	87.20	77.60
2008	846	8717	7575.11	99.20	99.20	79.60	101.90	78.30
2009	846	8041	6974.69	91.80	91.80	80.00	94.10	78.80
2010	846	7889	6778.51	90.10	90.10	80.20	91.50	79.10
2011	846	8730	7602.37	99.70	99.70	80.80	102.60	79.80
2012	846	7469	6411.91	85.00	85.00	80.90	86.30	79.90
2013	846	8700	7553.22	99.30	99.30	81.40	101.90	80.50
2014	846	8022	6935.79	91.60	91.60	81.60	93.60	80.80
2015	859	8701	7553.32	99.30	99.30	82.00	100.40	81.30
2016	859	8216	7095.22	93.50	93.50	82.30	94.00	81.60
2017	859	8730	7572.35	99.70	99.70	82.70	100.60	82.10
2018	859	8083	6967.44	92.30	92.30	82.90	92.60	82.30
2019	859	8760	7587.62	100.00	100.00	83.30	100.80	82.70
2020	859	8087	7012.14	92.10	92.10	83.50	92.90	82.90
2021	859	8760	7621.40	100.00	100.00	83.90	101.30	83.30
2022	859	8193	7013.09	93.50	93.50	84.10	93.20	83.50