Dresden 2

Operable

Details

Reactor Type	Boiling Water Reactor (or BWR)
Model	BWR-3 (Mark 1)
Owner	Exelon Corporation
Operator	Exelon Generation Co., Llc

Timeline

Construction Start	Monday, 10 January 1966
First Criticality	Wednesday, 7 January 1970
First Grid Connection	Monday, 13 April 1970
Commercial Operation	Tuesday, 9 June 1970

Specifications

Capacity Net	894 MWe
Capacity Gross	950 MWe
Thermal Capacity	2957 MWt
Design Net Capacity	794 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 (%)
1970	815	2558	1253.00	37.90	100.00	100.00	23.90	23.90
1971	815	5694	2806.30	65.00	100.00	100.00	39.30	33.60
1972	815	5240	3370.50	59.60	100.00	100.00	47.10	38.80
1973	800	7672	5014.50	87.60	90.80	97.50	71.60	47.80
1974	800	5113	3376.00	58.40	58.30	89.00	48.20	47.90
1975	800	4826	2957.00	55.10	42.20	80.70	42.20	46.90
1976	781	6660	4374.40	75.80	64.10	78.30	63.80	49.40
1977	772	6297	3538.10	71.90	52.40	75.00	52.30	49.80
1978	772	8244	5704.50	94.10	84.40	76.00	84.40	53.70
1979	772	7141	4942.90	81.50	73.10	75.70	73.10	55.60
1980	772	8193	4580.40	93.30	93.50	77.40	67.60	56.70
1981	772	5260	3416.00	60.00	60.10	75.90	50.50	56.20
1982	772	8094	5123.10	92.40	92.40	77.20	75.80	57.70
1983	772	5076	3402.20	58.00	58.90	75.90	50.30	57.20
1984	772	6402	4468.36	72.90	72.90	75.70	65.90	57.80
1985	772	4678	3105.97	53.40	54.50	74.40	45.90	57.00
1986	772	6761	4655.67	77.20	77.20	74.50	68.80	57.70
1987	772	5342	3362.64	61.00	61.00	73.80	49.70	57.30
1988	772	6931	4325.16	78.90	78.90	74.00	63.80	57.60
1989	772	7023	4751.70	80.20	80.20	74.40	70.30	58.30
1990	772	5920	4116.85	67.60	67.60	74.00	60.90	58.40
1991	772	5031	2984.21	57.40	58.00	73.30	44.10	57.70
1992	772	7419	4185.75	84.50	84.50	73.80	61.70	57.90
1993	772	4790	3058.56	54.70	54.70	73.00	45.20	57.40
1994	772	5808	4086.10	66.30	66.30	72.70	60.40	57.50
1995	772	2938	1890.54	33.50	33.50	71.20	28.00	56.40
1996	772	3731	2161.41	42.50	42.50	70.10	31.90	55.40
1997	772	7738	5578.45	88.30	89.40	70.80	82.50	56.40
1998	772	7496	5632.86	85.60	85.60	71.30	83.30	57.40
1999	772	8122	6229.52	92.70	92.70	72.00	92.10	58.50
2000	772	8747	6867.43	99.60	99.60	72.90	101.30	59.90
2001	772	8005	6072.69	91.40	91.20	73.50	89.80	60.80
2002	850	8760	7527.47	100.00	100.00	74.40	101.10	62.20
2003	850	7999	6703.11	91.30	92.00	75.00	90.00	63.10
2004	850	7045	5909.32	80.20	80.20	75.10	79.20	63.60
2005	850	7710	6590.08	88.00	88.00	75.50	88.50	64.30
2006	867	8485	7273.22	96.90	96.90	76.20	95.80	65.30
2007	867	8132	6972.69	92.80	92.80	76.60	91.80	66.10
2008	867	8639	7469.52	98.40	98.40	77.30	98.10	67.00
2009	867	8033	6902.62	91.70	91.70	77.70	90.90	67.60
2010	867	8760	7726.88	100.00	100.00	78.30	101.70	68.50
2011	883	8150	7181.34	93.00	93.10	78.60	94.30	69.20
2012	883	8634	7912.78	98.30	98.30	79.20	102.00	70.10
2013	883	8266	7546.81	94.40	94.40	79.50	97.60	70.80
2014	894	8315	7585.87	94.90	95.00	79.90	96.90	71.40
2015	894	8106	7360.79	92.50	92.50	80.20	94.00	72.00
2016	894	8784	8047.97	100.00	100.00	80.70	102.50	72.70
2017	902	8299	7409.85	94.70	94.80	81.00	93.80	73.20
2018	894	8760	8051.49	100.00	100.00	81.50	102.80	73.80
2019	894	8128	7139.16	92.80	92.80	81.70	91.20	74.20
2020	894	8674	7966.53	98.80	100.00	82.10	101.40	74.80
2021	894	8285	7032.49	94.60	94.60	82.40	89.80	75.10
2022	894	8712	8019.51	99.40	99.40	82.70	102.40	75.70
2023	894	8258	7408.14	94.30	95.20	83.00	94.60	76.10