Tihange 3

Operable

Details

Reactor Type	Pressurised Water Reactor (or PWR)
Model	W (3-loop)
Owner	Engie Electrabel
Operator	Engie Electrabel

Timeline

Construction Start	Wednesday, 1 November 1978
First Criticality	Wednesday, 5 June 1985
First Grid Connection	Saturday, 15 June 1985
Commercial Operation	Sunday, 1 September 1985

Specifications

Capacity Net	1030 MWe
Capacity Gross	1089 MWe
Thermal Capacity	3000 MWt
Design Net Capacity	1020 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 (%)
1985	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1986	1020	7733	7558.00	88.30	85.60	85.60	84.60	84.60
1987	1020	7872	7829.00	89.90	87.30	86.40	87.60	86.10
1988	1020	7773	7623.00	88.50	85.00	86.00	85.10	85.80
1989	1020	7790	7749.00	88.90	87.00	86.20	86.70	86.00
1990	1020	7924	7794.00	90.50	87.10	86.40	87.20	86.20
1991	1020	7903	7649.00	90.20	86.20	86.40	85.60	86.10
1992	1020	8246	8335.00	93.90	93.30	87.40	93.00	87.10
1993	1020	7874	7748.00	89.90	88.10	87.40	86.70	87.10
1994	1015	7666	7480.00	87.50	84.70	87.10	84.10	86.80
1995	1015	7632	7559.00	87.10	84.70	86.90	85.00	86.60
1996	1015	7142	7189.00	81.30	81.10	86.40	80.60	86.00
1997	1015	8342	8357.00	95.20	94.40	87.00	94.00	86.70
1998	1015	6903	6738.00	78.80	75.90	86.20	75.80	85.90
1999	1015	8686	8799.00	99.20	98.90	87.10	99.00	86.80
2000	1015	7656	7597.00	87.20	84.90	87.00	85.20	86.70
2001	1015	7929	7729.00	90.50	86.50	86.90	86.90	86.70
2002	1015	8368	8340.47	95.50	93.70	87.30	93.80	87.10
2003	1015	7846	7661.54	89.60	86.50	87.30	86.20	87.10
2004	1015	7969	7936.43	90.70	89.20	87.40	89.00	87.20
2005	1015	8753	8707.53	99.90	99.60	88.00	97.90	87.70
2006	1015	7592	7237.59	86.70	83.30	87.80	81.40	87.40
2007	1015	7406	7339.40	84.50	83.00	87.50	82.50	87.20
2008	1015	8365	8385.26	95.20	93.90	87.80	94.00	87.50
2009	1054	7480	7717.15	85.40	84.60	87.70	84.60	87.40
2010	1046	7489	7563.23	85.50	81.90	87.40	82.00	87.10
2011	1046	8701	8981.89	99.30	98.00	87.90	98.00	87.60
2012	1046	7800	7974.73	88.80	87.80	87.90	86.80	87.50
2013	1046	7839	8094.07	89.50	88.30	87.90	88.30	87.60
2014	1046	8550	8800.74	97.60	96.60	88.20	96.00	87.90
2015	1038	7264	7336.42	82.90	80.40	87.90	80.50	87.60
2016	1038	7623	7835.57	86.80	85.80	87.80	85.90	87.60
2017	1038	8737	8963.79	99.70	98.50	88.20	98.60	87.90
2018	1038	2138	2221.56	24.40	24.40	86.20	24.40	86.00
2019	1038	8758	8945.12	100.00	98.40	86.60	98.40	86.30
2020	1038	5686	5838.22	64.70	64.00	85.90	64.00	85.70
2021	1038	8760	9001.86	100.00	99.20	86.30	99.00	86.10
2022	1038	7297	7366.37	83.30	81.10	86.20	81.00	85.90
2023	1030	7389	7544.13	84.40	83.00	86.10	83.10	85.80