McGuire 1

Operable

Details

Reactor Type	Pressurised Water Reactor (or PWR)
Model	W (4-loop) ICECND
Owner	Duke Energy Corp.
Operator	Duke Energy Corp.

Timeline

Construction Start	Thursday, 1 April 1971
First Criticality	Saturday, 8 August 1981
First Grid Connection	Saturday, 12 September 1981
Commercial Operation	Tuesday, 1 December 1981

Specifications

Capacity Net	1158 MWe
Capacity Gross	1215 MWe
Thermal Capacity	3411 MWt
Design Net Capacity	1180 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 (%)
1981	1180	45	19.10	6.00	10.20	10.20	2.20	2.20
1982	1180	7043	4302.30	80.40	81.60	76.00	41.60	38.50
1983	1180	4852	4650.00	55.40	57.30	67.00	45.00	41.60
1984	1180	6011	6434.27	68.40	69.30	67.80	62.10	48.30
1985	1180	6747	6780.08	77.00	77.10	70.00	65.60	52.50
1986	1150	4912	5181.08	56.10	56.20	67.40	51.40	52.30
1987	1150	6713	7352.88	76.60	76.70	68.90	73.00	55.60
1988	1129	6763	7406.41	77.00	77.00	70.00	74.70	58.20
1989	1129	7187	7807.23	82.00	84.50	71.80	78.90	60.70
1990	1129	4718	4755.31	53.90	56.90	70.20	48.10	59.40
1991	1129	6259	6851.08	71.40	71.40	70.30	69.30	60.30
1992	1129	6839	7485.28	77.90	77.90	71.00	75.50	61.70
1993	1129	5095	5537.09	58.20	58.20	69.90	56.00	61.20
1994	1129	6291	6877.25	71.80	71.90	70.10	69.50	61.80
1995	1129	8017	8860.20	91.50	91.60	71.60	89.60	63.80
1996	1129	7858	8558.29	89.50	89.50	72.70	86.30	65.30
1997	1129	6361	7011.25	72.60	72.70	72.70	70.90	65.60
1998	1100	7889	8822.61	90.10	90.00	73.70	90.00	67.00
1999	1100	7584	8593.31	86.60	86.60	74.40	89.20	68.20
2000	1100	8741	9995.02	99.50	99.50	75.70	103.40	70.00
2001	1100	7708	8684.94	88.00	88.00	76.30	90.10	70.90
2002	1100	8042	9100.83	91.80	91.80	77.00	94.40	72.00
2003	1100	8760	9912.47	100.00	100.00	78.00	102.90	73.40
2004	1100	7321	8238.51	83.30	83.40	78.20	85.30	73.90
2005	1100	7963	8968.59	90.90	90.90	78.70	93.10	74.60
2006	1100	8760	9967.23	100.00	100.00	79.60	103.40	75.80
2007	1100	6852	7656.08	78.20	78.20	79.50	79.40	75.90
2008	1100	7412	8364.40	84.40	84.40	79.70	86.60	76.30
2009	1100	8760	9999.08	100.00	100.00	80.40	103.80	77.20
2010	1100	7778	8835.73	88.80	88.80	80.70	91.70	77.70
2011	1129	7979	9081.86	91.10	91.20	81.00	93.60	78.20
2012	1129	8784	10114.04	100.00	100.00	81.60	102.00	79.00
2013	1158	7740	8780.45	88.40	88.60	81.90	86.60	79.30
2014	1158	7194	8227.61	82.10	82.10	81.90	81.10	79.30
2015	1160	8603	10188.92	98.20	98.20	82.40	100.30	80.00
2016	1160	8085	9515.88	92.00	91.80	82.60	93.40	80.30
2017	1158	8196	9646.27	93.60	93.60	83.00	95.10	80.80
2018	1158	8730	10359.25	99.70	99.70	83.40	102.10	81.40
2019	1158	8022	9271.86	91.60	91.60	83.60	91.40	81.60
2020	1158	8013	9434.12	91.20	91.20	83.80	92.80	81.90
2021	1158	8760	10329.64	100.00	100.00	84.20	101.80	82.40
2022	1158	7867	9252.30	89.80	89.80	84.40	91.20	82.60
2023	1158	7826	9202.10	89.30	100.00	84.80	90.70	82.80