Ringhals 2

Permanent Shutdown

Details

Reactor Type	Pressurised Water Reactor (or PWR)
Model	W (3-loops)
Owner	Ringhals AB
Operator	Ringhals AB

Timeline

Construction Start	Thursday, 1 October 1970
First Criticality	Wednesday, 19 June 1974
First Grid Connection	Saturday, 17 August 1974
Commercial Operation	Thursday, 1 May 1975
Permanent Shutdown	Tuesday, 31 December 2019

Specifications

Capacity Net	852 MWe
Capacity Gross	963 MWe
Thermal Capacity	2652 MWt
Design Net Capacity	820 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 (%)
1974	822	679	183.90	-	-	-	-	-
1975	820	5126	3121.40	57.50	44.80	44.80	44.80	44.80
1976	822	6167	4213.00	70.20	59.40	53.60	58.40	52.90
1977	822	6402	4114.40	73.10	57.10	54.90	57.10	54.50
1978	800	6772	4094.40	77.30	58.40	55.80	58.40	55.60
1979	800	5541	3585.30	63.20	51.20	54.80	51.20	54.60
1980	800	5824	4336.90	66.30	61.70	56.00	61.70	55.90
1981	800	6216	4093.20	71.00	58.40	56.40	58.40	56.20
1982	800	5922	4548.00	67.60	66.30	57.70	64.90	57.40
1983	800	6107	3935.30	69.70	56.20	57.50	56.20	57.20
1984	800	6090	4178.68	69.30	68.20	58.60	59.50	57.40
1985	800	6680	4294.66	76.30	74.80	60.10	61.30	57.80
1986	800	6383	3969.11	72.90	59.40	60.00	56.60	57.70
1987	800	7397	4216.58	84.40	65.20	60.50	60.20	57.90
1988	800	7368	4216.13	83.90	68.50	61.00	60.00	58.00
1989	800	6002	3619.61	68.50	50.00	60.30	51.60	57.60
1990	800	6348	5064.76	72.50	66.70	60.70	72.30	58.60
1991	875	7909	6232.85	90.30	83.50	62.20	81.30	60.00
1992	875	6959	5193.38	79.20	72.10	62.80	67.60	60.50
1993	875	3307	2650.00	37.80	37.80	61.40	34.60	59.00
1994	875	7429	6258.71	84.80	83.00	62.50	81.60	60.20
1995	867	7676	6096.64	87.60	84.80	63.70	80.30	61.20
1996	864	7574	5723.31	86.20	76.80	64.30	75.40	61.90
1997	864	7927	6175.12	90.50	80.70	65.10	81.60	62.80
1998	875	7866	6096.40	89.80	82.20	65.80	79.50	63.60
1999	862	8075	6445.82	92.20	85.80	66.70	85.40	64.50
2000	862	7284	5143.53	82.90	77.00	67.10	67.90	64.60
2001	862	8004	6322.65	91.40	85.70	67.80	83.70	65.40
2002	875	8130	6540.30	92.80	84.30	68.40	85.30	66.20
2003	875	8093	6811.52	92.40	90.90	69.30	88.90	67.00
2004	875	7976	6786.61	90.80	90.30	70.00	88.30	67.70
2005	875	6874	5784.42	78.50	77.90	70.30	75.50	68.00
2006	867	8107	6839.37	92.60	89.70	70.90	90.00	68.70
2007	867	7782	6365.08	88.80	83.70	71.30	83.80	69.20
2008	867	7175	5746.34	81.70	78.10	71.50	75.40	69.40
2009	813	3432	2786.30	39.20	38.60	70.60	39.10	68.50
2010	813	7164	5599.94	81.80	78.30	70.80	78.60	68.80
2011	809	2186	1726.66	25.00	24.40	69.60	24.40	67.60
2012	865	4660	3612.96	53.00	48.20	69.00	48.30	67.10
2013	807	7978	6297.87	91.10	84.80	69.40	85.00	67.60
2014	807	5443	4321.58	62.10	60.90	69.20	61.10	67.40
2015	807	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	67.60	0.00	65.80
2016	904	853	701.83	9.70	9.70	66.20	9.80	64.50
2017	904	7919	6396.07	90.40	80.60	66.60	80.80	64.90
2018	907	7857	6739.19	89.70	84.70	67.00	84.90	65.40
2019	852	8239	5126.60	94.00	67.00	67.00	67.30	65.50