Hartlepool A 1

Operable

Details

Reactor Type	Gas-Cooled Reactor (or GCR)
Model	AGR
Owner	EDF Energy
Operator	EDF Energy

Timeline

Construction Start	Tuesday, 1 October 1968
First Criticality	Friday, 24 June 1983
First Grid Connection	Monday, 1 August 1983
Commercial Operation	Saturday, 1 April 1989

Specifications

Capacity Net	590 MWe
Capacity Gross	655 MWe
Thermal Capacity	1500 MWt
Design Net Capacity	625 MWe

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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 (%)
1983	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1984	600	3130	836.00	-	-	-	-	-
1985	625	1772	584.38	-	-	-	-	-
1986	625	4833	1854.67	-	-	-	-	-
1987	625	1242	378.35	-	-	-	-	-
1988	490	3101	926.59	-	-	-	-	-
1989	420	4683	1829.47	45.20	72.80	72.80	39.10	39.10
1990	510	3486	1698.68	39.90	40.10	54.50	39.90	39.50
1991	625	6791	2953.39	77.70	75.00	63.10	54.10	45.60
1992	510	6156	2910.40	69.10	63.50	63.20	64.10	50.40
1993	605	7802	4449.59	89.30	87.10	68.60	87.40	58.70
1994	605	7716	4296.60	88.30	81.40	71.00	81.30	62.90
1995	605	5937	3584.24	67.60	67.70	70.40	67.40	63.70
1996	605	7691	4518.01	87.60	85.60	72.50	85.00	66.60
1997	605	7644	4441.68	87.00	83.60	73.90	83.60	68.60
1998	605	7108	3892.34	80.90	73.50	73.80	73.20	69.20
1999	605	8369	5000.14	95.30	94.40	75.80	94.10	71.60
2000	605	8153	4757.35	92.80	88.60	77.00	89.50	73.20
2001	605	7301	4291.19	83.10	80.90	77.30	80.80	73.80
2002	605	7965	4627.85	90.90	87.50	78.10	87.30	74.80
2003	605	7856	4583.30	89.70	86.60	78.70	86.50	75.60
2004	605	3385	1942.67	38.50	36.90	75.90	36.60	73.10
2005	605	4829	2322.93	55.10	43.90	74.00	43.80	71.30
2006	595	4291	2378.89	49.00	45.90	72.40	45.40	69.80
2007	595	5680	3295.79	64.80	63.10	71.90	63.20	69.40
2008	595	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	68.20	0.00	65.90
2009	595	6986	3945.95	79.80	76.00	68.60	75.70	66.40
2010	595	7547	4407.41	86.20	84.20	69.30	84.60	67.20
2011	595	5514	3102.64	63.00	59.90	68.90	59.50	66.90
2012	595	7613	4301.94	86.70	82.50	69.40	82.30	67.50
2013	595	7557	3992.35	86.30	76.90	69.80	76.60	67.90
2014	595	5782	3158.04	66.00	60.90	69.40	60.60	67.60
2015	595	6817	3043.14	77.80	58.80	69.00	58.40	67.30
2016	595	5559	2787.18	63.30	54.40	68.50	53.30	66.80
2017	595	8079	4672.85	92.20	89.90	69.20	89.60	67.60
2018	590	6101	3539.00	69.60	68.70	69.20	68.50	67.60
2019	590	7677	4340.04	87.60	84.20	69.70	84.00	68.10
2020	590	8063	4581.72	91.80	88.60	70.30	88.40	68.80
2021	590	5562	2865.20	63.50	55.90	69.80	55.40	68.40
2022	590	6437	3574.26	73.50	69.80	69.80	69.20	68.40
2023	590	7553	4199.98	86.20	81.60	70.20	81.30	68.70