Oconee 2

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	Sunday, 11 November 1973
First Grid Connection	Wednesday, 5 December 1973
Commercial Operation	Monday, 9 September 1974

Specifications

Capacity Net	848 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	886	526	152.30	-	-	-	-	-
1974	920	2786	2115.50	61.90	100.00	100.00	54.60	54.60
1975	871	6398	4970.60	73.00	65.20	74.30	65.20	62.40
1976	871	5483	4232.60	62.40	55.40	66.20	55.30	59.40
1977	860	5315	3830.00	60.70	50.90	61.70	50.80	56.90
1978	860	6155	4786.20	70.30	63.50	62.10	63.50	58.40
1979	860	7532	5968.20	86.00	79.20	65.30	79.20	62.20
1980	860	5397	3882.00	61.40	62.00	64.80	51.40	60.50
1981	860	7050	5198.90	80.50	81.00	67.00	69.00	61.70
1982	860	4580	3447.70	52.30	53.50	65.40	45.80	59.80
1983	860	6348	5147.00	72.50	73.20	66.20	68.30	60.70
1984	860	8784	7297.96	100.00	100.00	69.50	96.60	64.20
1985	860	6654	5059.95	76.00	76.30	70.10	67.20	64.40
1986	860	7169	5803.10	81.80	81.40	71.00	77.00	65.40
1987	860	8565	6228.69	97.80	98.00	73.00	82.70	66.70
1988	846	6880	5539.98	78.30	78.40	73.40	74.60	67.30
1989	846	7272	6013.10	83.00	83.10	74.00	81.10	68.20
1990	846	7469	6269.36	85.30	85.30	74.70	84.60	69.20
1991	846	8760	7427.94	100.00	100.00	76.10	100.20	70.90
1992	846	7103	5946.93	80.90	80.90	76.40	80.00	71.40
1993	846	7352	6236.28	83.90	84.00	76.80	84.20	72.00
1994	846	7292	6148.50	83.20	83.30	77.10	83.00	72.60
1995	846	8263	6973.94	94.30	94.40	77.90	94.10	73.60
1996	846	5304	4431.97	60.40	60.40	77.10	59.60	73.00
1997	846	6974	5876.79	79.60	79.70	77.20	79.30	73.20
1998	846	6776	5654.70	77.40	77.40	77.20	76.30	73.40
1999	846	7374	6257.60	84.20	84.20	77.50	84.40	73.80
2000	846	8784	7499.52	100.00	100.00	78.30	100.90	74.80
2001	846	7836	6688.42	89.40	89.40	78.70	90.20	75.40
2002	846	7743	6611.11	88.40	88.40	79.10	89.20	75.80
2003	846	8760	7568.72	100.00	100.00	79.80	102.10	76.70
2004	846	6652	5676.11	75.70	75.80	79.60	76.40	76.70
2005	846	7808	6672.33	89.10	89.10	80.00	90.00	77.10
2006	846	8552	7391.88	97.60	97.60	80.50	99.70	77.80
2007	846	7878	6768.99	89.90	90.00	80.80	91.30	78.20
2008	846	7470	6392.52	85.00	85.10	80.90	86.00	78.50
2009	846	8760	7606.99	100.00	100.00	81.40	102.60	79.10
2010	846	7829	6734.26	89.40	89.40	81.60	90.90	79.50
2011	846	8097	6858.68	92.40	92.40	81.90	92.60	79.80
2012	846	8756	7537.01	99.70	99.70	82.40	101.40	80.40
2013	846	7455	6396.65	85.10	85.10	82.50	86.30	80.50
2014	846	8711	7539.58	99.40	99.40	82.90	101.70	81.00
2015	848	8082	6949.48	92.30	92.30	83.10	93.60	81.30
2016	848	8784	7609.83	100.00	100.00	83.50	102.20	81.80
2017	848	8045	6869.61	91.80	91.80	83.70	92.50	82.10
2018	848	8760	7581.17	100.00	100.00	84.10	102.10	82.50
2019	848	7955	6798.42	90.80	90.80	84.20	91.50	82.70
2020	848	8783	7670.16	100.00	100.00	84.60	103.00	83.20
2021	848	8106	6786.82	92.50	92.50	84.70	91.40	83.30
2022	848	8236	7123.87	94.00	94.00	84.90	95.90	83.60
2023	848	8159	7068.01	93.10	93.20	85.10	95.20	83.80