Edwin I. Hatch 2

Operable

Details

Reactor Type	Boiling Water Reactor (or BWR)
Model	BWR-4 (Mark 1)
Owner	Georgia Power Co.
Operator	Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc.

Timeline

Construction Start	Tuesday, 1 February 1972
First Criticality	Tuesday, 4 July 1978
First Grid Connection	Friday, 22 September 1978
Commercial Operation	Wednesday, 5 September 1979

Specifications

Capacity Net	883 MWe
Capacity Gross	921 MWe
Thermal Capacity	2804 MWt
Design Net Capacity	784 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 (%)
1978	795	1385	496.60	-	-	-	-	-
1979	749	4155	2632.60	84.70	100.00	100.00	80.10	80.10
1980	767	5269	3653.10	60.00	59.10	69.20	54.20	60.60
1981	772	6872	4481.50	78.40	78.70	73.30	66.30	63.00
1982	771	5588	3734.20	63.80	63.90	70.40	55.30	60.70
1983	771	5774	3817.20	65.90	66.10	69.40	56.50	59.70
1984	748	2833	1893.50	32.20	26.70	61.60	28.80	54.10
1985	748	7239	5376.13	82.60	82.60	64.90	82.00	58.40
1986	777	6169	3618.71	70.40	70.40	65.60	53.20	57.70
1987	761	8388	5755.61	95.80	95.70	69.20	86.30	61.10
1988	768	5917	4254.48	67.40	65.60	68.80	63.10	61.30
1989	768	6155	4147.17	70.30	68.60	68.80	61.60	61.30
1990	766	8649	6527.75	98.70	98.70	71.40	97.30	64.50
1991	761	6656	4932.15	76.00	74.40	71.70	74.00	65.30
1992	765	6668	4692.39	75.90	74.50	71.90	69.90	65.60
1993	757	7734	4999.71	88.30	87.40	73.00	75.40	66.30
1994	765	7534	5275.59	86.00	85.20	73.80	78.70	67.10
1995	809	6888	5055.51	78.60	77.40	74.00	75.10	67.60
1996	809	8639	7021.70	98.40	98.40	75.50	98.80	69.50
1997	818	7560	6033.58	86.30	86.40	76.10	84.20	70.40
1998	855	7247	5829.91	82.70	82.80	76.50	81.00	70.90
1999	855	8173	7073.63	93.30	93.30	77.40	94.40	72.20
2000	878	7884	6900.28	89.80	89.60	78.00	89.90	73.10
2001	878	7618	6584.53	87.00	86.30	78.40	85.60	73.80
2002	870	8544	7423.29	97.50	97.30	79.40	97.40	74.90
2003	883	8052	6962.51	91.90	91.90	79.90	91.10	75.60
2004	883	8589	7520.63	97.80	97.80	80.70	97.00	76.60
2005	883	7724	6727.80	88.20	88.20	81.00	87.00	77.00
2006	883	8694	7641.83	99.20	99.20	81.80	98.80	77.90
2007	883	7744	6749.03	88.40	88.40	82.00	87.20	78.20
2008	883	8516	7479.80	97.00	97.00	82.60	96.40	78.90
2009	883	6119	5218.51	69.80	69.90	82.10	67.50	78.50
2010	883	8456	7391.68	96.50	96.50	82.60	95.60	79.10
2011	883	7405	6052.02	84.50	84.60	82.70	78.20	79.10
2012	883	8634	7581.41	98.30	98.30	83.20	97.80	79.70
2013	883	7728	6767.29	88.20	88.20	83.30	87.50	79.90
2014	883	8760	7693.19	100.00	100.00	83.80	99.50	80.50
2015	883	7950	6926.72	90.80	90.80	84.00	89.60	80.80
2016	883	8657	7656.23	98.60	98.60	84.50	98.70	81.30
2017	883	8254	7212.21	94.20	94.20	84.70	93.20	81.60
2018	883	8562	7393.99	97.70	97.70	85.10	95.60	82.00
2019	883	7386	6358.89	84.30	84.30	85.10	82.20	82.00
2020	883	8590	7557.67	97.80	97.80	85.40	97.40	82.40
2021	883	8023	6981.87	91.60	91.60	85.60	90.30	82.60
2022	883	8605	7557.77	98.20	98.20	85.90	97.70	83.00
2023	883	7811	6833.54	89.20	91.80	86.00	88.30	83.10