Tihange 1

Operable

Details

Reactor Type	Pressurised Water Reactor (or PWR)
Model	Framatome 3 loops reactor
Owner	Societe Belgo-Francaise D'Energie Nucleaire Mosane (Part of EDF)
Operator	Engie Electrabel

Timeline

Construction Start	Monday, 1 June 1970
First Criticality	Friday, 21 February 1975
First Grid Connection	Friday, 7 March 1975
Commercial Operation	Wednesday, 1 October 1975

Specifications

Capacity Net	962 MWe
Capacity Gross	1009 MWe
Thermal Capacity	2873 MWt
Design Net Capacity	870 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 (%)
1975	870	5360	3096.30	94.50	76.20	76.20	76.20	76.20
1976	870	6354	4409.50	72.30	57.50	61.30	57.70	61.40
1977	870	7234	5842.30	82.60	76.70	68.10	76.70	68.20
1978	870	7582	6371.00	86.60	84.30	73.10	83.60	72.90
1979	870	6121	5159.00	69.90	67.60	71.80	67.70	71.70
1980	870	7337	6173.00	83.50	80.70	73.50	80.80	73.40
1981	870	7762	6414.20	88.60	83.80	75.10	84.20	75.10
1982	870	7269	6164.80	83.00	80.80	75.90	80.90	75.90
1983	870	7135	5843.00	81.40	76.50	76.00	76.70	76.00
1984	870	7774	6374.00	88.50	83.40	76.80	83.40	76.80
1985	870	8077	5979.00	92.20	81.10	77.20	78.40	77.00
1986	870	5429	4005.00	62.00	54.80	75.20	52.60	74.80
1987	870	8733	7337.00	99.70	97.60	77.00	96.30	76.60
1988	870	7520	6310.00	85.60	83.90	77.60	82.60	77.00
1989	870	7854	6508.00	89.70	87.80	78.30	85.40	77.60
1990	870	8082	6683.00	92.30	88.40	79.00	87.70	78.30
1991	870	7714	6163.00	88.10	81.00	79.10	80.90	78.40
1992	870	7807	6059.00	88.90	79.10	79.10	79.30	78.50
1993	870	8459	7317.00	96.60	96.40	80.00	96.00	79.40
1994	863	8018	6737.00	91.50	90.00	80.50	89.10	79.90
1995	931	6488	5442.00	74.10	70.00	80.00	70.40	79.40
1996	931	7823	7210.66	89.10	88.20	80.40	88.20	79.90
1997	962	8385	7942.57	95.70	94.30	81.10	94.20	80.60
1998	962	7777	7264.00	88.80	86.30	81.30	86.20	80.90
1999	962	7905	7272.00	90.20	85.50	81.50	86.30	81.10
2000	962	8782	8457.00	100.00	99.30	82.30	100.10	81.90
2001	962	7481	6969.00	85.40	82.50	82.30	82.70	82.00
2002	962	7631	7047.15	87.10	83.90	82.40	83.60	82.00
2003	962	8552	7990.42	97.60	95.10	82.80	94.80	82.50
2004	962	7456	7106.47	84.90	84.50	82.90	84.10	82.60
2005	962	7403	6810.95	84.50	80.20	82.80	80.80	82.50
2006	962	8693	8186.91	99.20	98.80	83.40	97.20	83.00
2007	962	7627	7055.90	87.10	85.10	83.40	83.70	83.00
2008	962	7650	7264.54	87.10	85.20	83.50	86.00	83.10
2009	962	8679	8269.54	99.10	97.80	83.90	98.10	83.60
2010	962	7752	7316.10	88.50	86.40	84.00	86.80	83.70
2011	962	7333	6848.28	83.70	81.20	83.90	81.30	83.60
2012	962	8784	6763.30	100.00	79.40	83.80	80.00	83.50
2013	962	7203	6878.12	82.20	80.40	83.70	81.60	83.50
2014	962	7503	7192.76	85.60	84.50	83.70	85.40	83.50
2015	962	6211	5927.29	70.90	69.70	83.40	70.30	83.20
2016	962	3026	2871.03	34.40	33.70	82.10	34.00	81.90
2017	962	3675	3409.97	42.00	40.40	81.00	40.50	80.90
2018	962	8024	7633.87	91.60	89.80	81.30	90.60	81.10
2019	962	8714	8319.24	99.50	98.20	81.70	98.70	81.50
2020	962	434	303.85	4.90	3.60	79.80	3.60	79.70
2021	962	8760	8384.09	100.00	99.00	80.30	99.50	80.20
2022	962	4940	4685.63	56.40	55.30	79.70	55.60	79.60
2023	962	8760	8242.06	100.00	97.40	80.10	97.80	80.00