Bugey 4

Operable

Details

Reactor Type	Pressurised Water Reactor (or PWR)
Model	CP0
Owner	EDF
Operator	EDF

Timeline

Construction Start	Saturday, 1 June 1974
First Criticality	Saturday, 17 February 1979
First Grid Connection	Thursday, 8 March 1979
Commercial Operation	Sunday, 1 July 1979

Specifications

Capacity Net	880 MWe
Capacity Gross	917 MWe
Thermal Capacity	2785 MWt
Design Net Capacity	900 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 (%)
1979	900	5030	3528.00	64.60	64.60	64.60	58.40	58.40
1980	900	5983	5063.00	68.10	65.80	65.40	64.00	62.20
1981	900	6834	5671.90	78.00	75.60	69.50	71.90	66.10
1982	900	6276	5474.90	71.60	69.80	69.60	69.40	67.00
1983	900	7389	6329.00	84.40	83.20	72.60	80.30	70.00
1984	900	6896	5882.00	78.50	75.80	73.20	74.40	70.80
1985	900	7696	6224.40	87.80	86.70	75.30	79.00	72.00
1986	900	6622	5312.70	75.60	76.10	75.40	67.40	71.40
1987	900	6180	4670.90	70.60	78.20	75.70	59.20	70.00
1988	900	4524	3323.00	51.50	51.50	73.20	42.00	67.00
1989	900	6846	5541.34	78.20	76.20	73.40	70.30	67.40
1990	880	4312	3186.65	49.20	53.50	71.70	41.30	65.10
1991	880	6317	4984.85	72.10	69.30	71.60	64.70	65.10
1992	880	2012	1649.11	22.90	22.20	68.00	21.30	61.90
1993	880	7506	5748.62	85.70	74.20	68.40	74.60	62.80
1994	880	6619	5209.34	75.60	82.20	69.30	67.60	63.10
1995	880	4843	3989.94	55.30	59.10	68.60	51.80	62.40
1996	880	5333	4188.12	60.70	62.40	68.30	54.20	61.90
1997	880	7420	5652.46	84.70	80.80	69.00	73.30	62.50
1998	880	7791	6304.00	88.90	86.30	69.80	81.80	63.50
1999	880	7231	5591.31	82.60	77.50	70.20	72.50	64.00
2000	880	7544	5987.96	85.90	82.60	70.80	77.50	64.60
2001	880	5921	4746.00	67.60	63.40	70.50	61.60	64.40
2002	880	7130	5590.81	81.40	83.40	71.00	72.50	64.80
2003	880	8192	6645.34	93.50	94.20	71.90	86.20	65.60
2004	880	7367	6098.32	83.90	81.30	72.30	78.90	66.20
2005	880	7672	6073.19	87.60	80.30	72.60	78.80	66.60
2006	880	8341	6846.66	95.20	93.20	73.30	88.80	67.40
2007	880	4217	3586.19	48.10	46.80	72.40	46.50	66.70
2008	880	7891	6790.40	89.80	87.70	72.90	87.80	67.40
2009	880	6262	5094.25	71.50	67.50	72.80	66.10	67.40
2010	880	8674	7374.14	99.00	98.40	73.60	95.70	68.30
2011	880	5344	4458.28	61.00	58.80	73.10	57.80	67.90
2012	880	7529	6365.58	85.70	83.50	73.40	82.40	68.40
2013	880	8425	7125.79	96.20	95.40	74.00	92.40	69.10
2014	880	6265	5022.76	71.50	68.50	73.90	65.20	69.00
2015	880	7448	6335.29	85.00	82.90	74.10	82.20	69.30
2016	880	5739	4915.52	65.30	64.50	73.90	63.60	69.20
2017	880	8420	7189.64	96.10	94.70	74.40	93.30	69.80
2018	880	6625	5628.66	75.60	73.10	74.40	73.00	69.90
2019	880	7618	6584.52	87.00	84.80	74.60	85.40	70.20
2020	880	7595	6391.78	86.50	84.80	74.90	82.70	70.60
2021	880	4434	3552.95	50.60	48.20	74.30	46.10	70.00
2022	880	3339	2846.18	38.10	39.20	73.50	36.90	69.20
2023	880	8125	6683.66	92.80	87.50	73.80	86.70	69.60