Muehleberg

Permanent Shutdown

Details

Reactor Type	Boiling Water Reactor (or BWR)
Model	BWR-4
Owner	Bkw Energie Ag
Operator	Bkw Energie Ag

Timeline

Construction Start	Wednesday, 1 March 1967
First Criticality	Monday, 8 March 1971
First Grid Connection	Thursday, 1 July 1971
Commercial Operation	Monday, 6 November 1972
Permanent Shutdown	Friday, 20 December 2019

Specifications

Capacity Net	373 MWe
Capacity Gross	390 MWe
Thermal Capacity	1097 MWt
Design Net Capacity	306 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 (%)
1971	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1972	323	3834	860.10	91.10	92.20	92.20	82.00	82.00
1973	306	7315	2011.60	83.50	80.70	82.40	75.00	76.10
1974	306	7062	1846.20	80.60	73.20	78.20	68.90	72.80
1975	306	7989	2344.10	91.20	87.10	81.00	87.40	77.40
1976	306	7960	2355.20	90.60	85.20	82.00	87.60	79.80
1977	320	8097	2429.30	92.40	85.70	82.70	86.70	81.20
1978	320	8001	2465.70	91.30	87.30	83.50	88.00	82.30
1979	320	8024	2473.90	91.60	87.70	84.10	88.20	83.20
1980	320	8005	2482.40	91.10	88.50	84.60	88.30	83.80
1981	324	8051	2539.00	91.90	89.10	85.20	89.50	84.50
1982	326	8017	2663.30	91.50	88.90	85.50	93.30	85.40
1983	326	8026	2564.30	91.60	89.60	85.90	89.80	85.80
1984	326	7989	2527.17	91.00	88.10	86.10	88.20	86.00
1985	322	7882	2500.66	90.00	87.20	86.20	88.20	86.10
1986	326	6645	2114.47	75.90	73.70	85.30	74.00	85.30
1987	326	7959	2464.95	90.90	85.50	85.30	86.30	85.30
1988	326	7968	2497.60	90.70	87.10	85.40	87.20	85.50
1989	322	7226	2297.50	82.50	81.30	85.20	81.00	85.20
1990	323	7910	2477.89	90.30	86.50	85.20	87.30	85.30
1991	322	7714	2415.07	88.10	84.80	85.20	85.40	85.30
1992	322	7755	2413.45	88.30	85.00	85.20	85.10	85.30
1993	355	7917	2568.47	90.40	86.80	85.30	86.50	85.40
1994	355	7952	2643.11	90.80	84.90	85.30	85.00	85.30
1995	355	7894	2668.96	90.10	85.40	85.30	85.80	85.40
1996	355	7847	2649.03	89.30	84.40	85.20	85.00	85.40
1997	355	7671	2549.15	87.60	81.80	85.10	82.00	85.20
1998	355	7886	2659.69	90.00	85.20	85.10	85.50	85.20
1999	355	8064	2702.82	92.00	86.60	85.20	86.90	85.30
2000	355	8290	2817.03	94.40	90.10	85.30	90.30	85.50
2001	355	8195	2768.73	93.60	88.80	85.50	89.00	85.60
2002	355	8280	2828.21	94.50	87.70	85.60	91.00	85.80
2003	355	8034	2744.24	91.70	87.70	85.60	88.20	85.90
2004	355	8282	2906.12	94.30	92.40	85.80	93.20	86.10
2005	355	8130	2855.32	92.80	91.00	86.00	91.80	86.30
2006	355	8174	2882.88	93.30	90.90	86.20	92.70	86.50
2007	355	8021	2900.36	91.60	90.50	86.30	93.30	86.70
2008	355	8114	2973.26	92.40	91.30	86.40	95.40	87.00
2009	373	8025	2983.63	91.60	90.70	86.60	91.30	87.10
2010	373	8198	3008.81	93.60	91.30	86.70	92.10	87.20
2011	373	6707	2495.89	76.60	75.70	86.40	76.40	86.90
2012	373	8017	2971.32	91.30	90.70	86.50	90.70	87.00
2013	373	7947	2919.48	90.70	89.40	86.60	89.40	87.10
2014	373	8146	3014.59	93.00	92.30	86.80	92.30	87.20
2015	373	8025	2934.18	91.60	90.50	86.80	89.80	87.30
2016	373	8160	2946.09	92.90	90.00	86.90	89.90	87.40
2017	373	8157	3004.03	93.10	92.00	87.00	91.90	87.50
2018	373	8132	2970.39	92.80	90.90	87.10	90.90	87.60
2019	373	8484	3124.95	99.90	98.10	87.40	98.60	87.80