Joseph M. Farley 1

Operable

Details

Reactor Type	Pressurised Water Reactor (or PWR)
Model	W (3-loop)
Owner	Alabama Power Company
Operator	Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc.

Timeline

Construction Start	Thursday, 1 October 1970
First Criticality	Tuesday, 9 August 1977
First Grid Connection	Thursday, 18 August 1977
Commercial Operation	Thursday, 1 December 1977

Specifications

Capacity Net	874 MWe
Capacity Gross	918 MWe
Thermal Capacity	2775 MWt
Design Net Capacity	829 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 (%)
1977	829	1747	1047.90	68.80	100.00	100.00	64.20	64.20
1978	829	7568	5919.80	86.40	81.50	83.00	81.50	80.20
1979	829	2502	1732.40	28.60	23.80	54.60	23.90	53.20
1980	814	6110	4607.80	69.60	70.20	59.60	64.40	56.80
1981	804	3624	2653.00	41.40	41.50	55.30	37.70	52.20
1982	804	6936	5233.30	79.20	79.30	59.90	74.30	56.50
1983	804	6832	5268.60	78.00	77.70	62.80	74.80	59.40
1984	804	6920	5432.66	78.80	78.50	65.00	76.90	61.90
1985	816	7378	5868.67	84.20	84.30	67.40	82.10	64.40
1986	827	7247	5738.56	82.70	82.40	69.10	79.20	66.00
1987	825	8201	6444.86	93.60	93.70	71.50	89.20	68.40
1988	813	7363	5908.21	83.80	83.80	72.60	82.70	69.70
1989	824	7520	6022.64	85.80	86.00	73.80	83.40	70.80
1990	824	8681	6908.57	99.10	99.10	75.70	95.70	72.70
1991	814	6870	5416.06	78.40	78.40	75.90	76.00	73.00
1992	812	7119	5667.94	81.00	81.00	76.20	79.50	73.40
1993	812	8522	6873.90	97.30	97.30	77.50	96.60	74.80
1994	812	7546	6059.84	86.10	86.10	78.00	85.20	75.40
1995	812	7220	5751.98	82.40	82.40	78.30	80.90	75.70
1996	812	8740	7142.30	99.50	99.50	79.40	100.10	77.00
1997	822	6803	5433.98	77.70	77.70	79.30	75.50	76.90
1998	822	6539	5237.94	74.60	74.80	79.10	72.70	76.70
1999	847	8695	7226.52	99.30	99.30	80.00	97.40	77.70
2000	828	6775	5204.09	77.10	76.80	79.90	71.60	77.40
2001	833	7736	6392.53	88.30	88.30	80.20	87.60	77.90
2002	833	8641	7221.79	98.60	98.60	81.00	99.00	78.70
2003	830	7909	6609.90	90.30	90.30	81.40	90.90	79.20
2004	851	7627	6423.88	86.80	87.00	81.60	86.80	79.50
2005	833	8709	7402.19	99.40	99.40	82.20	101.40	80.30
2006	851	7578	6419.32	86.50	86.50	82.40	86.10	80.50
2007	851	7663	6530.77	87.50	87.50	82.60	87.60	80.70
2008	851	8579	7281.47	97.70	97.70	83.00	97.40	81.30
2009	851	7922	6711.12	90.40	90.50	83.30	90.00	81.60
2010	851	7806	6577.44	89.10	89.10	83.50	88.20	81.80
2011	874	8760	7764.30	100.00	100.00	84.00	101.40	82.40
2012	874	7967	6929.42	90.70	90.70	84.20	90.30	82.60
2013	874	8033	7021.41	91.70	91.70	84.40	91.70	82.90
2014	874	8760	7777.43	100.00	100.00	84.80	101.60	83.40
2015	874	7652	6680.66	87.40	87.40	84.90	87.30	83.50
2016	874	7617	6684.05	86.70	86.70	85.00	87.10	83.60
2017	874	8760	7750.07	100.00	100.00	85.40	101.20	84.10
2018	874	7567	6409.66	86.40	86.40	85.40	83.70	84.10
2019	874	7993	7003.19	91.20	91.30	85.50	91.50	84.20
2020	874	8783	7802.41	100.00	100.00	85.90	101.60	84.70
2021	874	7987	7096.20	91.20	91.20	86.00	92.70	84.90
2022	874	6367	5688.30	72.70	72.70	85.70	74.30	84.60
2023	874	8676	7922.18	99.00	98.60	86.00	103.50	85.00