Oconee 1

Operable

Details

Reactor Type	Pressurised Water Reactor (or PWR)
Model	B&W; (L-loop)
Owner	Duke Energy Corp.
Operator	Duke Energy Corp.

Timeline

Construction Start	Monday, 6 November 1967
First Criticality	Thursday, 19 April 1973
First Grid Connection	Sunday, 6 May 1973
Commercial Operation	Sunday, 15 July 1973

Specifications

Capacity Net	847 MWe
Capacity Gross	891 MWe
Thermal Capacity	2568 MWt
Design Net Capacity	887 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 (%)
1973	659	4226	2200.00	75.90	70.50	70.50	67.30	67.30
1974	920	5141	4230.30	58.70	100.00	92.20	52.50	56.40
1975	871	6672	5299.30	76.20	69.50	82.90	69.40	61.80
1976	871	5029	4003.50	57.20	52.40	74.00	52.30	59.00
1977	860	5455	3949.00	62.30	52.50	69.20	52.40	57.60
1978	860	6299	5054.40	71.90	67.10	68.80	67.10	59.30
1979	860	6220	5003.10	71.00	66.40	68.40	66.40	60.40
1980	860	6634	5118.30	75.50	76.20	69.50	67.80	61.40
1981	860	3657	3023.20	41.80	42.90	66.40	40.10	58.90
1982	860	6335	5152.80	72.30	73.50	67.10	68.40	59.90
1983	860	6804	5672.00	77.70	78.40	68.20	75.30	61.30
1984	860	7312	6173.71	83.20	83.60	69.50	81.70	63.10
1985	860	8424	7065.96	96.20	96.20	71.70	93.80	65.60
1986	860	5870	4793.94	67.00	70.20	71.60	63.60	65.40
1987	860	6693	5031.13	76.40	76.80	71.90	66.80	65.50
1988	846	8742	7192.19	99.50	99.50	73.70	96.80	67.50
1989	846	7264	5943.13	82.90	83.00	74.20	80.20	68.30
1990	846	7751	6454.83	88.50	88.50	75.00	87.10	69.30
1991	846	7245	6022.45	82.70	82.70	75.40	81.30	70.00
1992	846	7494	6277.69	85.30	85.30	76.00	84.50	70.70
1993	846	7833	6525.05	89.40	89.40	76.60	88.00	71.60
1994	846	7302	6088.71	83.40	83.40	76.90	82.20	72.00
1995	846	7537	6360.47	86.00	86.10	77.30	85.80	72.60
1996	846	6606	5566.97	75.20	75.20	77.20	74.90	72.70
1997	846	4482	3194.22	51.20	51.30	76.20	43.10	71.50
1998	846	7255	5996.40	82.80	82.80	76.40	80.90	71.90
1999	846	7383	6212.59	84.30	85.10	76.80	83.80	72.40
2000	846	7445	6312.68	84.80	84.80	77.00	85.00	72.80
2001	846	8210	6962.62	93.70	94.00	77.60	94.00	73.50
2002	846	7788	6607.46	88.90	88.90	78.00	89.20	74.10
2003	846	6288	5258.63	71.80	71.80	77.80	71.00	74.00
2004	846	8549	7260.23	97.30	97.30	78.40	97.70	74.70
2005	846	7879	6728.57	89.90	90.00	78.80	90.80	75.20
2006	846	6884	5819.36	78.60	78.60	78.80	78.50	75.30
2007	846	8562	7335.72	97.70	97.70	79.30	99.00	76.00
2008	846	7564	6222.80	86.10	86.10	79.50	83.70	76.20
2009	846	7393	6316.65	84.40	84.40	79.60	85.20	76.40
2010	846	8695	7433.77	99.30	99.30	80.20	100.30	77.10
2011	846	6917	5876.33	79.00	79.00	80.10	79.30	77.10
2012	846	7902	6701.97	90.00	90.00	80.40	90.20	77.50
2013	846	8260	7075.28	94.30	94.30	80.70	95.50	77.90
2014	846	7880	6718.01	90.00	90.00	81.00	90.60	78.20
2015	846	8760	7436.93	100.00	100.00	81.40	100.40	78.70
2016	846	7669	6472.06	87.30	87.30	81.50	87.10	78.90
2017	847	8583	7356.78	98.00	98.00	81.90	99.20	79.40
2018	847	7918	6745.64	90.40	90.40	82.10	90.90	79.60
2019	847	8760	7498.64	100.00	100.00	82.50	101.10	80.10
2020	847	8011	6859.97	91.20	91.20	82.60	92.20	80.30
2021	847	8760	7558.02	100.00	100.00	83.00	101.90	80.80
2022	847	8116	6988.17	92.60	92.70	83.20	94.20	81.00
2023	847	8760	7589.74	100.00	99.80	83.50	102.30	81.50