Palisades

Permanent Shutdown

Palisades was shut down for decommissioning in May 2022, although it was licensed to operate until March 2031. In June 2022, new owner Holtec International began the process of obtaining the licensing approvals needed to return the plant to operational status.

Details

Reactor Type	Pressurized Water Reactor (or PWR)
Model	CE (2-loop) DRYAMB
Owner	Holtec Palisades, LLC
Operator	Palisades Energy, LLC (OPCO)

Timeline

Construction Start	Sunday, 12 March 1967
First Criticality	Monday, 24 May 1971
First Grid Connection	Friday, 31 December 1971
Commercial Operation	Friday, 31 December 1971
Permanent Shutdown	Friday, 20 May 2022

Specifications

Capacity Net	805 MWe
Capacity Gross	850 MWe
Thermal Capacity	2565 MWt
Design Net Capacity	805 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 (%)
1971	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1972	400	4990	1899.10	56.80	100.00	100.00	54.00	54.00
1973	700	3829	2411.30	43.70	100.00	100.00	39.30	44.70
1974	722	317	93.30	3.60	100.00	100.00	1.50	27.60
1975	684	5649	2427.80	64.50	40.50	83.80	40.50	31.10
1976	684	4847	2846.90	55.20	47.40	76.00	47.40	34.60
1977	635	8004	5084.60	91.40	90.20	78.30	91.40	44.00
1978	635	4346	2624.20	49.60	46.00	73.70	47.20	44.50
1979	635	5241	3433.40	59.80	58.70	71.90	61.70	46.60
1980	635	3764	2379.10	42.80	39.70	68.30	42.60	46.20
1981	635	5009	3462.70	57.20	55.80	67.00	62.20	47.80
1982	635	4788	3345.00	54.70	49.30	65.40	60.10	48.90
1983	635	5282	3770.00	60.30	60.10	65.00	67.80	50.50
1984	635	1334	811.55	15.20	10.00	60.80	14.60	47.70
1985	730	7342	5301.80	83.80	82.00	62.30	91.80	51.00
1986	730	1323	841.24	15.10	14.90	58.70	13.20	48.10
1987	730	3980	2634.43	45.40	45.20	57.80	41.20	47.60
1988	730	4853	3435.22	55.20	53.70	57.50	53.60	48.00
1989	730	6019	3637.78	68.70	67.40	58.10	56.90	48.60
1990	730	5073	3008.09	57.90	56.10	58.00	47.00	48.50
1991	730	6693	4873.84	76.40	75.40	59.00	76.20	50.00
1992	730	6293	4865.07	71.60	70.50	59.60	75.90	51.30
1993	730	4595	3545.65	52.40	50.40	59.10	55.40	51.50
1994	730	5860	4513.83	66.90	65.50	59.40	70.60	52.40
1995	730	6491	4663.52	74.10	73.00	60.00	72.90	53.40
1996	730	7068	5314.34	80.50	79.70	60.90	82.90	54.60
1997	730	7714	5803.46	88.10	87.60	62.00	90.80	56.10
1998	730	7142	5390.58	81.50	81.10	62.70	84.30	57.20
1999	730	6910	5128.36	78.90	78.40	63.30	80.20	58.10
2000	730	7672	5748.02	87.30	86.80	64.20	89.60	59.30
2001	730	3118	2355.63	35.60	35.20	63.20	36.80	58.50
2002	730	8187	6369.37	93.50	93.20	64.20	99.60	59.90
2003	730	7914	6158.15	90.30	90.00	65.00	96.30	61.10
2004	730	7164	5346.14	81.60	81.10	65.60	83.40	61.80
2005	767	8443	6645.84	96.40	96.40	66.60	98.90	63.00
2006	778	7498	5917.11	85.60	85.60	67.20	86.80	63.80
2007	778	7427	5826.02	84.80	84.80	67.70	85.50	64.40
2008	778	8599	6837.23	97.90	97.90	68.60	100.00	65.50
2009	778	7695	6118.71	87.80	87.90	69.20	89.80	66.20
2010	778	7915	6240.66	90.40	90.40	69.80	91.60	66.90
2011	793	8407	6641.01	96.00	96.10	70.50	95.60	67.70
2012	793	6702	5178.21	76.30	76.40	70.70	74.30	67.90
2013	793	7567	6041.70	86.40	86.40	71.10	87.00	68.40
2014	793	7286	5830.36	83.20	83.20	71.40	83.90	68.80
2015	805	7948	6318.52	90.70	90.90	71.90	89.60	69.40
2016	805	8784	7041.29	100.00	100.00	72.60	99.60	70.10
2017	805	7969	6097.50	91.00	91.00	73.00	86.50	70.50
2018	805	6863	5455.94	78.30	79.10	73.20	77.40	70.70
2019	805	8585	6864.36	98.00	98.00	73.80	97.30	71.30
2020	805	7540	5995.12	85.80	85.80	74.00	84.80	71.60
2021	805	8760	6993.51	100.00	100.00	74.60	99.20	72.20
2022	805	3351	2730.23	-	-	-	-	-