Koeberg 1

Operable

Details

Reactor Type	Pressurised Water Reactor (or PWR)
Model	CP1
Owner	Eskom
Operator	Eskom

Timeline

Construction Start	Thursday, 1 July 1976
First Criticality	Wednesday, 14 March 1984
First Grid Connection	Wednesday, 4 April 1984
Commercial Operation	Saturday, 21 July 1984

Specifications

Capacity Net	924 MWe
Capacity Gross	964 MWe
Thermal Capacity	2775 MWt
Design Net Capacity	921 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 (%)
1984	920	5063	3949.53	95.30	91.30	91.30	86.40	86.40
1985	920	4986	4004.30	56.90	53.50	64.60	49.70	60.50
1986	922	4575	3418.99	52.20	53.60	60.10	42.30	53.00
1987	920	4337	2864.54	49.50	61.60	60.50	35.50	47.90
1988	920	6791	5964.44	77.30	76.00	64.00	73.80	53.80
1989	922	5655	4498.08	64.00	63.20	63.90	55.20	54.00
1990	920	5360	3852.07	61.20	52.70	62.20	47.80	53.10
1991	920	6886	5976.84	78.60	74.60	63.80	74.20	55.90
1992	920	5697	3992.53	64.90	50.30	62.20	49.40	55.10
1993	920	6010	4097.94	68.60	50.50	61.00	50.80	54.70
1994	920	8422	5933.92	96.10	74.90	62.30	73.60	56.50
1995	920	5853	4576.86	66.80	56.80	61.80	56.80	56.50
1996	920	7260	5672.79	82.60	70.40	62.50	70.20	57.60
1997	920	7676	6610.69	87.60	82.30	64.00	82.00	59.40
1998	920	8552	7248.29	97.60	90.10	65.80	89.90	61.60
1999	920	7848	7051.70	89.60	83.30	66.90	87.50	63.20
2000	920	7250	5629.15	82.70	70.20	67.10	69.80	63.60
2001	920	7303	6042.50	83.40	77.10	67.70	75.00	64.30
2002	900	8417	7328.60	96.10	93.10	69.00	93.00	65.80
2003	900	7398	6413.36	84.40	81.90	69.70	81.40	66.60
2004	900	7358	6388.00	83.80	81.10	70.20	80.80	67.30
2005	900	6726	5821.02	76.80	74.70	70.40	73.80	67.60
2006	900	5435	4682.78	62.00	59.80	70.00	59.40	67.20
2007	900	6609	5747.01	75.40	73.60	70.10	72.90	67.40
2008	900	8689	7691.88	98.90	98.30	71.30	97.30	68.70
2009	900	6307	5467.97	72.00	70.10	71.20	69.40	68.70
2010	900	6085	5291.74	69.50	67.80	71.10	67.10	68.60
2011	930	8315	7622.37	94.90	94.30	72.00	94.00	69.60
2012	930	6975	6384.83	79.40	78.50	72.20	78.20	69.90
2013	930	6084	5527.64	69.40	68.20	72.00	67.80	69.80
2014	930	8760	8102.87	100.00	99.60	73.00	99.50	70.80
2015	930	5860	5321.75	66.90	65.50	72.70	65.30	70.60
2016	930	7759	7051.38	88.30	86.80	73.20	86.30	71.10
2017	930	8760	8103.47	100.00	99.50	74.00	99.50	72.00
2018	930	5838	5090.34	66.60	62.50	73.60	62.50	71.70
2019	930	6049	5510.90	69.00	67.70	73.50	67.60	71.60
2020	930	8572	7719.38	97.60	94.50	74.00	94.50	72.20
2021	924	4664	4120.92	53.20	50.70	73.40	50.70	71.60
2022	924	8236	7280.79	94.00	90.10	73.80	90.00	72.10
2023	924	1041	752.77	11.90	9.40	72.20	9.30	70.50