Dungeness B 1

Permanent Shutdown

Details

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

Timeline

Construction Start	Friday, 1 October 1965
First Criticality	Thursday, 23 December 1982
First Grid Connection	Sunday, 3 April 1983
Commercial Operation	Monday, 1 April 1985
Permanent Shutdown	Monday, 7 June 2021

Specifications

Capacity Net	545 MWe
Capacity Gross	615 MWe
Thermal Capacity	1500 MWt
Design Net Capacity	607 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	2319	598.00	-	-	-	-	-
1985	450	6117	2438.25	67.80	62.80	62.80	61.90	61.90
1986	450	4447	1172.56	50.90	29.10	43.50	29.80	43.60
1987	450	1179	210.32	13.20	6.50	29.90	5.20	29.50
1988	450	3857	1233.94	44.20	33.30	30.80	31.40	30.00
1989	360	2650	647.20	30.30	24.80	29.60	18.00	27.60
1990	360	5093	757.96	58.30	26.30	29.20	24.10	27.10
1991	415	7329	2656.18	83.90	74.50	35.60	74.00	33.80
1992	520	2670	1052.26	30.00	27.40	34.50	26.70	32.80
1993	540	7138	3493.16	81.70	77.00	40.20	77.40	38.80
1994	555	4676	2385.68	53.50	49.20	41.40	49.20	40.10
1995	555	1587	873.72	18.10	18.20	38.80	17.90	37.60
1996	555	5311	2516.97	60.50	51.60	40.10	51.60	39.10
1997	555	4549	2078.19	51.80	42.90	40.30	42.60	39.40
1998	555	5716	2198.30	65.10	47.00	40.90	45.10	39.90
1999	555	4752	1584.20	54.10	33.00	40.30	32.50	39.30
2000	555	1201	409.64	13.70	8.40	38.00	8.40	37.10
2001	555	7108	3049.09	80.90	61.90	39.60	62.50	38.80
2002	555	5043	2167.58	57.60	45.50	40.00	44.60	39.10
2003	555	5212	2482.86	59.50	51.90	40.70	51.10	39.80
2004	555	6305	3082.47	71.80	63.80	42.00	63.20	41.20
2005	555	6039	2955.14	68.90	61.60	43.00	60.80	42.20
2006	545	5246	2453.84	59.90	51.60	43.40	51.20	42.60
2007	545	6447	2981.31	73.60	63.30	44.40	62.40	43.60
2008	520	4467	1999.90	50.80	43.70	44.30	43.30	43.60
2009	520	3527	1627.03	40.30	36.00	44.00	35.70	43.20
2010	520	3233	948.94	36.90	20.80	43.10	20.80	42.40
2011	520	2517	655.60	28.70	16.10	42.00	14.40	41.30
2012	520	4632	1979.08	52.70	44.40	42.10	43.30	41.40
2013	520	6215	2891.06	71.00	69.50	43.10	63.50	42.10
2014	520	4409	1641.91	50.30	37.40	42.90	36.00	41.90
2015	525	7679	3870.67	87.70	83.40	44.30	84.20	43.30
2016	525	7786	3959.17	88.60	84.70	45.60	85.80	44.70
2017	525	5050	2356.85	57.60	51.50	45.80	51.20	44.90
2018	545	5677	2902.74	64.80	61.50	46.20	60.80	45.40
2019	545	0	-85.83	0.00	0.00	44.80	0.00	44.00
2020	545	0	-92.66	0.00	0.00	43.50	0.00	42.60
2021	545	0	-42.30	0.00	0.00	43.00	0.00	42.10