St. Lucie 1

Operable

Details

Reactor Type	Pressurized Water Reactor (or PWR)
Model	COMB CE DRYAMB
Owner	Florida Power & Light Co.
Operator	Florida Power & Light Co.

Timeline

Construction Start	Wednesday, 1 July 1970
First Criticality	Thursday, 22 April 1976
First Grid Connection	Friday, 7 May 1976
Commercial Operation	Tuesday, 21 December 1976

Specifications

Capacity Net	981 MWe
Capacity Gross	1045 MWe
Thermal Capacity	3020 MWt
Design Net Capacity	830 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 (%)
1976	802	919	317.20	-	-	-	-	-
1977	779	7414	5343.70	84.60	78.40	78.40	78.30	78.30
1978	777	6674	5009.70	76.20	73.60	76.00	73.60	76.00
1979	777	6469	4889.60	73.80	71.70	74.60	71.80	74.60
1980	777	6797	5201.90	77.40	76.00	74.90	76.20	75.00
1981	777	6364	4954.70	72.60	70.50	74.00	72.80	74.60
1982	803	8227	6784.60	93.90	94.20	77.50	96.40	78.30
1983	820	1350	1099.50	15.40	15.40	68.20	15.30	68.90
1984	822	5154	4243.28	58.70	58.60	67.00	58.80	67.60
1985	827	7067	5868.61	80.70	80.40	68.50	81.10	69.20
1986	839	8351	7052.03	95.30	95.70	71.40	97.10	72.10
1987	839	6812	5719.18	77.80	77.80	72.00	77.80	72.60
1988	839	7407	6256.01	84.30	84.40	73.00	84.90	73.70
1989	839	8257	6947.34	94.30	94.30	74.70	94.50	75.30
1990	839	5463	4503.49	62.40	64.30	74.00	61.30	74.30
1991	839	7089	5793.30	80.90	81.00	74.40	78.80	74.60
1992	839	8479	7142.17	96.50	96.50	75.90	96.90	76.00
1993	839	6678	5440.51	76.20	76.20	75.90	74.00	75.90
1994	839	7600	6183.59	86.80	86.80	76.50	84.10	76.40
1995	839	6662	5519.42	76.00	76.20	76.50	75.10	76.30
1996	839	6472	5222.04	73.70	73.80	76.40	70.90	76.00
1997	839	6842	5717.75	78.10	78.10	76.40	77.80	76.10
1998	839	8393	7035.48	95.80	95.80	77.40	95.70	77.00
1999	839	7752	6532.73	88.50	88.50	77.80	88.90	77.60
2000	839	8784	7513.70	100.00	100.00	78.80	102.00	78.60
2001	839	7915	6709.77	90.40	90.40	79.30	91.30	79.10
2002	839	8163	6919.40	93.20	93.20	79.80	94.20	79.70
2003	839	8760	7504.81	100.00	100.00	80.60	102.10	80.60
2004	839	7518	6324.30	85.60	85.60	80.80	85.80	80.80
2005	839	7217	6088.09	82.40	82.40	80.80	82.80	80.80
2006	839	8760	7463.29	100.00	100.00	81.50	101.60	81.50
2007	839	7417	6235.76	84.70	84.70	81.60	84.80	81.60
2008	839	7872	6673.04	89.60	89.60	81.80	90.60	81.90
2009	839	8760	7369.21	100.00	100.00	82.40	100.30	82.50
2010	839	6813	5302.68	77.80	77.80	82.20	72.20	82.20
2011	839	7719	6240.99	88.10	88.10	82.40	84.90	82.20
2012	982	5821	4912.62	66.30	69.70	82.00	59.10	81.50
2013	982	7104	6980.44	81.10	81.10	82.00	81.10	81.50
2014	982	8760	8721.17	100.00	100.00	82.50	101.40	82.10
2015	982	7927	7833.25	90.50	90.50	82.80	91.10	82.40
2016	982	7059	6918.93	80.40	80.40	82.70	80.20	82.30
2017	981	8554	8512.14	97.60	97.60	83.10	99.00	82.80
2018	981	7986	7914.55	91.20	91.20	83.30	92.10	83.00
2019	981	6182	6098.13	70.60	70.60	83.00	71.00	82.70
2020	981	8783	8726.84	100.00	100.00	83.40	101.30	83.20
2021	981	7811	7734.30	89.20	89.20	83.60	90.00	83.40
2022	981	8001	7831.28	91.30	91.30	83.80	91.10	83.60
2023	981	8760	8644.64	100.00	100.00	84.20	100.60	84.00
2024	981	7734	7617.44	88.00	88.00	84.30	88.40	84.10