Balakovo 4

Operable

Details

Reactor Type	Pressurised Water Reactor (or PWR)
Model	VVER V-320
Owner	Joint Stock Company 'Concern Rosenergoatom'
Operator	Joint Stock Company 'Concern Rosenergoatom'

Timeline

Construction Start	Sunday, 1 April 1984
First Criticality	Wednesday, 24 March 1993
First Grid Connection	Sunday, 11 April 1993
Commercial Operation	Wednesday, 22 December 1993

Specifications

Capacity Net	950 MWe
Capacity Gross	1000 MWe
Thermal Capacity	3200 MWt
Design Net Capacity	950 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 (%)
1993	950	5206	3676.28	-	-	-	-	-
1994	950	4604	3828.53	52.60	48.40	48.40	46.00	46.00
1995	950	8760	5609.99	100.00	86.50	67.40	67.40	56.70
1996	950	6652	4545.55	75.70	55.50	63.40	54.50	56.00
1997	950	6637	4637.72	75.80	59.60	62.50	55.70	55.90
1998	950	6936	5042.49	79.20	60.90	62.20	60.60	56.80
1999	950	7268	5803.91	83.00	69.60	63.40	69.70	59.00
2000	950	7216	6665.85	82.20	79.00	65.60	79.90	62.00
2001	950	7354	6578.09	84.00	78.30	67.20	79.00	64.10
2002	950	6723	6292.92	76.80	72.80	67.80	75.60	65.40
2003	950	7541	7223.84	86.10	84.60	69.50	86.80	67.50
2004	950	7540	7022.94	85.80	82.50	70.70	84.20	69.00
2005	950	7699	6938.28	87.90	82.10	71.60	83.40	70.20
2006	950	7230	6805.35	82.50	79.60	72.30	81.80	71.10
2007	950	7787	7153.35	88.90	84.70	73.20	86.00	72.20
2008	950	8779	8330.42	99.90	99.70	74.90	99.80	74.00
2009	950	7727	7409.95	88.20	87.80	75.70	89.00	75.00
2010	950	7168	7199.69	81.80	81.40	76.10	86.50	75.60
2011	950	7619	7625.20	87.00	86.40	76.60	91.60	76.50
2012	950	8608	8517.84	98.00	97.70	77.80	102.10	77.90
2013	950	7847	7847.25	89.60	89.10	78.30	94.30	78.70
2014	950	7173	7204.52	81.90	81.30	78.50	86.60	79.10
2015	950	8757	8800.05	100.00	100.00	79.40	105.70	80.30
2016	950	8045	8006.24	91.60	91.10	80.00	95.90	81.00
2017	950	7386	7336.59	84.30	84.00	80.10	88.20	81.30
2018	950	8760	8777.02	100.00	100.00	80.90	105.50	82.20
2019	950	5952	6075.81	68.00	67.80	80.40	73.00	81.90
2020	950	7307	7368.35	83.20	83.10	80.50	88.30	82.10
2021	950	8296	8516.23	94.70	94.60	81.00	102.30	82.80
2022	950	7962	8167.11	90.90	90.70	81.30	98.10	83.40
2023	950	7797	7999.26	89.00	88.80	81.60	96.10	83.80