Beznau 1

Operable

Details

Reactor Type	Pressurised Water Reactor (or PWR)
Model	W (2-loop)
Owner	Kernkraftwerk Beznau
Operator	Kernkraftwerk Beznau

Timeline

Construction Start	Wednesday, 1 September 1965
First Criticality	Monday, 30 June 1969
First Grid Connection	Thursday, 17 July 1969
Commercial Operation	Wednesday, 24 December 1969

Specifications

Capacity Net	365 MWe
Capacity Gross	380 MWe
Thermal Capacity	1130 MWt
Design Net Capacity	350 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 (%)
1969	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1970	364	5917	1947.00	67.60	61.00	61.00	61.10	61.10
1971	364	5123	1700.50	58.50	59.00	60.00	53.30	57.20
1972	280	5391	1402.90	61.40	61.30	60.40	57.00	57.20
1973	350	6654	1655.00	76.00	71.60	63.30	54.00	56.30
1974	350	7177	2346.70	81.90	78.10	66.30	76.50	60.50
1975	350	7490	2490.90	85.50	81.20	68.80	81.20	64.00
1976	350	7530	2548.10	85.70	83.50	71.00	82.90	66.80
1977	350	7592	2596.30	86.70	85.20	72.80	84.70	69.00
1978	350	8031	2761.90	91.70	89.50	74.60	90.10	71.40
1979	350	7746	2658.80	88.40	86.10	75.80	86.70	73.00
1980	350	7682	2650.50	87.40	85.70	76.70	86.20	74.20
1981	350	7486	2569.70	85.50	83.50	77.30	83.80	75.00
1982	350	7553	2566.90	86.20	83.50	77.80	83.70	75.70
1983	350	7546	2551.70	86.10	83.50	78.20	83.20	76.20
1984	350	8001	2732.94	91.10	88.80	78.90	88.90	77.10
1985	350	7906	2634.26	90.20	86.00	79.40	85.90	77.60
1986	350	7403	2496.27	84.50	81.60	79.50	81.40	77.80
1987	350	7256	2486.26	82.80	80.70	79.60	81.10	78.00
1988	350	7499	2566.55	85.40	83.00	79.70	83.50	78.30
1989	350	7062	2433.15	80.60	78.60	79.70	79.40	78.40
1990	350	7506	2562.48	85.70	84.40	79.90	83.60	78.60
1991	350	7430	2495.26	84.80	83.50	80.10	81.40	78.70
1992	350	7303	2477.39	83.10	81.70	80.10	80.60	78.80
1993	350	6241	2158.43	71.20	69.40	79.70	70.40	78.50
1994	350	7610	2686.88	86.90	85.00	79.90	87.60	78.80
1995	350	7993	2850.46	91.20	90.20	80.30	93.00	79.40
1996	365	7704	2753.18	87.70	86.80	80.50	88.60	79.70
1997	365	7731	2708.21	88.20	85.10	80.70	84.70	79.90
1998	365	8760	3183.13	100.00	99.80	81.40	99.60	80.60
1999	365	8074	2841.27	92.20	88.60	81.60	88.90	80.90
2000	365	7113	2539.20	81.00	78.30	81.50	79.20	80.80
2001	365	8504	3090.18	97.10	96.80	82.00	96.60	81.40
2002	365	8000	2908.78	91.30	91.00	82.30	91.00	81.70
2003	365	8494	3061.76	97.00	96.20	82.70	95.80	82.10
2004	365	7758	2801.17	88.30	87.40	82.90	87.40	82.20
2005	365	8491	3095.96	96.90	96.60	83.30	96.80	82.70
2006	365	8114	2950.68	92.60	92.20	83.50	92.30	82.90
2007	365	8486	3081.34	96.90	96.70	83.90	96.40	83.30
2008	365	8143	2956.58	92.70	92.40	84.10	92.20	83.50
2009	365	8460	3067.33	96.60	96.30	84.40	95.90	83.90
2010	365	7347	2673.99	83.90	83.70	84.40	83.60	83.80
2011	365	8458	3067.13	96.60	96.40	84.70	95.90	84.20
2012	365	7508	2724.73	85.50	85.30	84.70	85.00	84.20
2013	365	8473	3078.45	96.70	96.60	85.00	96.30	84.40
2014	365	8047	2920.61	91.90	91.60	85.10	91.30	84.60
2015	365	1715	628.54	19.60	19.60	83.70	19.70	83.20
2016	365	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	81.80	0.00	81.30
2017	365	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	80.10	0.00	79.60
2018	365	6897	2483.69	78.70	77.30	80.00	77.70	79.60
2019	365	7851	2854.84	89.60	88.60	80.20	89.30	79.80
2020	365	7661	2784.66	87.20	86.20	80.30	86.80	79.90
2021	365	8449	3071.24	96.40	95.60	80.60	96.00	80.20
2022	365	7244	2564.59	82.70	79.90	80.60	80.20	80.20
2023	365	8377	2937.08	95.60	91.50	80.80	91.90	80.40