Quad Cities 1

Operable

Details

Reactor Type	Boiling Water Reactor (or BWR)
Model	BWR-3 (Mark 1)
Owner	Exelon (75%) Midamerican Energy (25%)
Operator	Exelon Generation Co., Llc

Timeline

Construction Start	Wednesday, 15 February 1967
First Criticality	Monday, 18 October 1971
First Grid Connection	Wednesday, 12 April 1972
Commercial Operation	Sunday, 18 February 1973

Specifications

Capacity Net	908 MWe
Capacity Gross	940 MWe
Thermal Capacity	2957 MWt
Design Net Capacity	789 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 (%)
1972	850	4575	2525.20	-	-	-	-	-
1973	800	7382	4908.50	82.80	86.80	86.80	69.00	69.00
1974	800	5365	3464.10	61.20	61.40	73.00	49.40	58.40
1975	800	7531	4413.40	86.00	61.00	68.80	63.00	60.00
1976	769	5699	3401.70	64.90	50.40	64.10	50.40	57.60
1977	769	6176	3527.40	70.50	52.40	61.80	52.40	56.50
1978	769	8315	4782.00	94.90	71.00	63.30	71.00	58.90
1979	769	7096	4786.50	81.00	71.00	64.40	71.00	60.70
1980	769	5840	3468.80	66.50	66.70	64.70	51.40	59.50
1981	769	8244	5726.80	94.10	94.30	68.00	85.00	62.40
1982	769	5951	3258.00	67.90	68.50	68.10	48.40	61.00
1983	769	8258	5776.40	94.30	94.60	70.50	85.80	63.20
1984	769	4687	3358.48	53.40	53.40	69.10	49.70	62.10
1985	769	8242	6072.32	94.10	94.10	71.00	90.10	64.20
1986	769	6035	4426.18	68.90	68.90	70.80	65.70	64.40
1987	769	6141	4456.09	70.10	70.10	70.80	66.20	64.50
1988	769	8199	5661.98	93.30	93.40	72.20	83.80	65.70
1989	769	6428	4280.44	73.40	73.40	72.30	63.50	65.60
1990	769	7276	5345.56	83.10	83.10	72.90	79.40	66.30
1991	769	4882	3549.53	55.70	55.80	72.00	52.70	65.60
1992	769	6158	4166.14	70.10	70.10	71.90	61.70	65.40
1993	769	6902	5042.49	78.80	78.80	72.20	74.80	65.90
1994	769	2526	1670.17	28.80	28.90	70.20	24.80	64.00
1995	769	7934	5886.21	90.60	90.60	71.10	87.40	65.00
1996	769	3769	2680.59	42.90	42.90	70.00	39.70	64.00
1997	769	7764	5565.46	88.60	88.70	70.70	82.60	64.70
1998	769	4299	3142.88	49.10	49.10	69.90	46.60	64.00
1999	769	8210	6337.59	93.70	93.70	70.80	94.10	65.10
2000	769	8242	6168.07	93.80	93.80	71.60	91.30	66.10
2001	769	8691	6710.87	99.20	99.20	72.50	99.60	67.20
2002	855	7564	5709.52	86.40	86.60	73.00	84.00	67.80
2003	855	8013	6810.25	91.50	92.40	73.70	90.90	68.60
2004	855	8784	6502.77	100.00	100.00	74.60	86.60	69.20
2005	864	7875	6281.05	89.90	89.90	75.10	83.00	69.70
2006	867	8161	6747.25	93.20	93.20	75.70	88.80	70.30
2007	867	8212	6951.04	93.70	93.80	76.30	91.50	71.00
2008	867	8784	7490.09	100.00	100.00	77.00	98.40	71.80
2009	867	7879	6230.78	89.90	90.00	77.40	82.00	72.10
2010	882	8698	7646.11	99.30	99.30	78.00	99.00	72.90
2011	882	7898	7109.23	90.20	90.20	78.40	92.00	73.50
2012	908	8784	8130.41	100.00	100.00	79.00	101.90	74.30
2013	908	8073	7505.99	92.20	92.20	79.40	94.40	74.80
2014	908	8760	8168.26	100.00	100.00	79.90	102.70	75.60
2015	908	8170	7519.60	93.30	93.30	80.30	94.50	76.10
2016	908	8784	8104.18	100.00	100.00	80.80	101.60	76.80
2017	908	8305	7498.16	94.80	94.80	81.20	94.30	77.20
2018	908	8668	8051.91	99.00	100.00	81.60	101.20	77.80
2019	908	8101	7421.05	92.50	92.50	81.90	93.30	78.20
2020	908	8783	8075.97	100.00	100.00	82.30	101.20	78.70
2021	908	8360	7601.76	95.40	95.40	82.60	95.60	79.10
2022	908	8760	8095.80	100.00	100.00	83.00	101.80	79.60
2023	908	8241	7425.73	94.10	94.00	83.20	93.40	79.90