Hunterston B 2

Permanent Shutdown

Details

Reactor Type	Gas-Cooled Reactor (or GCR)
Model	AGR
Owner	EDF Energy
Operator	EDF Energy

Timeline

Construction Start	Wednesday, 1 November 1967
First Criticality	Sunday, 27 March 1977
First Grid Connection	Thursday, 31 March 1977
Commercial Operation	Thursday, 31 March 1977
Permanent Shutdown	Friday, 7 January 2022

Specifications

Capacity Net	495 MWe
Capacity Gross	644 MWe
Thermal Capacity	1496 MWt
Design Net Capacity	624 MWe

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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 (%)
1977	500	3071	1047.70	46.40	32.50	32.50	31.60	31.60
1978	500	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	14.00	0.00	13.60
1979	500	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	8.90	0.00	8.70
1980	500	5147	2544.00	58.90	58.90	22.20	58.20	21.90
1981	500	7219	3019.90	81.10	68.20	32.00	67.80	31.70
1982	515	5596	2706.20	64.00	59.80	36.90	60.10	36.70
1983	520	8524	4153.00	97.60	88.40	44.80	91.40	45.00
1984	550	6365	3287.00	72.90	67.70	47.90	68.40	48.30
1985	575	8303	4507.70	95.00	88.70	53.10	89.70	53.50
1986	575	6496	3616.10	74.40	70.80	55.10	72.00	55.60
1987	575	8710	4623.40	97.80	90.50	58.70	90.30	59.10
1988	575	5754	3115.50	65.90	61.30	58.90	62.00	59.40
1989	575	8643	4728.00	98.90	93.50	61.80	94.10	62.30
1990	575	5858	3231.25	67.10	63.80	62.00	64.30	62.50
1991	575	8707	4727.80	99.70	94.00	64.30	94.10	64.70
1992	575	3733	1969.70	41.90	39.20	62.60	38.50	63.00
1993	575	8128	4322.10	93.00	86.10	64.10	86.00	64.40
1994	585	6949	3784.72	79.50	74.70	64.70	74.40	65.00
1995	585	8315	4671.30	91.60	90.10	66.20	87.90	66.30
1996	585	2377	1276.60	27.10	91.80	67.60	24.80	64.10
1997	595	8200	4559.72	93.40	87.50	68.60	87.20	65.30
1998	595	8149	4518.00	92.80	86.70	69.50	86.40	66.40
1999	595	7302	4101.97	83.10	78.80	69.90	78.50	66.90
2000	595	6411	3241.62	73.00	62.00	69.60	62.00	66.70
2001	595	6485	3785.00	73.80	83.70	70.20	72.40	66.90
2002	595	7721	4413.06	88.10	83.10	70.70	84.70	67.70
2003	595	8381	4627.26	95.70	87.50	71.40	88.80	68.50
2004	595	7799	4238.69	88.80	83.50	71.80	81.10	69.00
2005	595	7017	3633.64	80.10	69.40	71.70	69.70	69.00
2006	605	6753	3745.99	77.10	71.00	71.70	71.00	69.10
2007	420	4642	1658.38	53.00	41.30	70.90	40.70	68.30
2008	410	6054	2240.71	68.90	61.90	70.70	61.80	68.20
2009	430	8065	3217.65	92.10	85.40	71.00	86.40	68.60
2010	430	7876	3218.67	89.90	85.10	71.40	85.40	69.00
2011	430	7211	2959.85	82.30	78.30	71.50	78.60	69.20
2012	430	8784	3635.82	100.00	95.40	72.00	96.30	69.80
2013	430	7601	3432.84	86.80	83.40	72.30	91.10	70.30
2014	485	6114	2832.36	69.80	66.50	72.20	66.70	70.20
2015	485	8640	4134.20	98.60	95.40	72.70	97.30	70.80
2016	485	8399	4028.95	95.60	93.00	73.20	94.60	71.30
2017	485	7187	3421.34	82.00	79.50	73.30	80.50	71.60
2018	495	6599	3142.06	75.30	73.20	73.30	72.50	71.60
2019	495	2572	1116.54	29.40	27.80	72.30	25.80	70.60
2020	495	2284	1022.14	26.00	24.80	71.30	23.50	69.60
2021	495	7048	3246.09	80.50	75.30	71.40	74.90	69.70