Point Beach 2

Operable

Details

Reactor Type	Pressurised Water Reactor (or PWR)
Model	W (2-loop) DRYAMB
Owner	Nextera Energy Resources, Llc
Operator	Nextera Energy Resources, Llc

Timeline

Construction Start	Thursday, 25 July 1968
First Criticality	Tuesday, 30 May 1972
First Grid Connection	Wednesday, 2 August 1972
Commercial Operation	Sunday, 1 October 1972

Specifications

Capacity Net	591 MWe
Capacity Gross	640 MWe
Thermal Capacity	1800 MWt
Design Net Capacity	497 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 (%)
1972	75	2987	225.70	81.50	100.00	100.00	84.80	84.80
1973	497	8192	2991.00	93.50	80.20	80.90	68.70	69.30
1974	497	7100	3179.30	81.00	81.00	81.00	73.00	71.10
1975	485	8224	3741.40	93.90	87.90	83.20	88.10	76.60
1976	491	7959	3749.20	90.60	86.80	84.10	86.90	79.20
1977	495	7496	3622.30	85.60	83.50	84.00	83.50	80.00
1978	495	8039	3858.90	91.80	89.00	84.80	89.00	81.50
1979	495	7728	3707.50	88.20	85.50	84.90	85.50	82.10
1980	495	7569	3587.90	86.20	88.00	85.30	82.50	82.10
1981	495	7757	3720.30	88.60	89.90	85.80	85.80	82.60
1982	495	7595	3605.40	86.70	88.20	86.00	83.20	82.60
1983	495	6245	3016.30	71.30	74.50	85.00	69.60	81.40
1984	495	7405	3512.37	84.30	86.00	85.10	80.80	81.40
1985	485	7491	3603.08	85.50	86.80	85.20	84.80	81.60
1986	485	7186	3417.55	82.00	82.10	85.00	80.40	81.50
1987	485	7478	3606.15	85.40	85.50	85.00	84.90	81.80
1988	485	7626	3718.68	86.80	88.00	85.20	87.30	82.10
1989	485	7107	3485.10	81.10	82.90	85.10	82.00	82.10
1990	485	7713	3793.46	88.00	89.10	85.30	89.30	82.50
1991	485	7569	3689.18	86.40	87.60	85.40	86.80	82.70
1992	485	7492	3668.19	85.30	86.60	85.50	86.10	82.90
1993	485	7883	3844.50	90.00	90.90	85.70	90.50	83.20
1994	485	7827	3752.30	89.40	90.30	85.90	88.30	83.50
1995	485	7158	3385.96	81.70	83.40	85.80	79.70	83.30
1996	485	6653	2950.35	75.70	78.00	85.50	69.20	82.70
1997	485	1788	825.49	20.40	21.40	83.00	19.40	80.20
1998	485	6609	3123.75	75.40	75.50	82.70	73.50	80.00
1999	512	7195	3578.50	82.10	82.60	82.70	81.90	80.00
2000	512	7094	3527.45	80.80	80.90	82.60	78.40	80.00
2001	512	8631	4342.97	98.50	98.60	83.20	96.80	80.60
2002	512	7934	4004.30	90.60	90.70	83.40	89.30	80.90
2003	518	7469	3713.28	85.30	85.60	83.50	81.90	80.90
2004	518	8559	4384.88	97.40	97.50	84.00	96.40	81.40
2005	514	6355	3232.63	72.50	72.60	83.60	71.80	81.10
2006	514	7972	4094.78	91.00	91.00	83.80	90.90	81.40
2007	514	8760	4462.21	100.00	100.00	84.30	99.10	82.00
2008	514	7904	4075.91	90.00	90.00	84.50	90.30	82.20
2009	516	7501	3782.45	85.60	85.70	84.50	83.70	82.20
2010	515	8495	4336.29	97.00	97.00	84.90	96.10	82.60
2011	586	6098	3450.08	69.60	71.90	84.50	70.80	82.30
2012	591	7935	4633.79	90.30	90.40	84.70	89.30	82.50
2013	591	8760	5237.69	100.00	100.00	85.10	101.20	83.00
2014	591	7962	4742.28	90.90	90.90	85.30	91.60	83.20
2015	591	8095	4819.90	92.40	92.40	85.50	93.10	83.50
2016	591	8784	5282.17	100.00	100.00	85.80	101.80	84.00
2017	591	8113	4810.70	92.60	92.60	86.00	92.90	84.20
2018	591	8267	4948.38	94.40	94.50	86.20	95.60	84.50
2019	591	8760	5239.90	100.00	100.00	86.60	101.20	84.90
2020	591	8244	4942.57	93.80	93.90	86.70	95.20	85.20
2021	591	8145	4754.72	93.00	93.00	86.90	91.80	85.30
2022	591	8760	5303.96	100.00	100.00	87.20	102.40	85.70