Paluel 3

Operable

Details

Reactor Type	Pressurised Water Reactor (or PWR)
Model	P4 REP 1300
Owner	EDF
Operator	EDF

Timeline

Construction Start	Thursday, 1 February 1979
First Criticality	Wednesday, 7 August 1985
First Grid Connection	Monday, 30 September 1985
Commercial Operation	Saturday, 1 February 1986

Specifications

Capacity Net	1330 MWe
Capacity Gross	1382 MWe
Thermal Capacity	3817 MWt
Design Net Capacity	1330 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 (%)
1985	1290	1747	1605.40	-	-	-	-	-
1986	1290	6503	8321.70	71.80	72.10	72.10	71.50	71.50
1987	1290	6104	7716.60	69.70	78.30	75.30	68.30	69.80
1988	1330	5413	6763.00	61.60	59.20	69.70	57.90	65.60
1989	1330	6288	8124.44	71.80	70.20	69.80	69.70	66.70
1990	1330	6008	7321.98	68.60	66.20	69.10	62.80	65.90
1991	1330	7634	9587.15	87.20	86.20	72.00	82.30	68.70
1992	1330	5671	6886.61	64.60	63.00	70.70	59.00	67.30
1993	1330	6951	8459.03	79.40	73.40	71.00	72.60	68.00
1994	1330	5590	6703.62	63.80	61.80	70.00	57.50	66.80
1995	1330	7598	8733.26	86.70	84.10	71.40	75.00	67.60
1996	1330	7261	8027.69	82.70	84.60	72.60	68.70	67.70
1997	1330	6494	7618.80	74.10	72.80	72.60	65.40	67.50
1998	1330	6913	8327.02	78.90	76.10	72.90	71.50	67.80
1999	1330	6505	7636.71	74.30	73.80	73.00	65.60	67.70
2000	1330	8199	9819.79	93.30	94.40	74.40	84.00	68.80
2001	1330	6796	7815.94	77.60	79.60	74.80	67.10	68.70
2002	1330	7366	8900.48	84.10	80.40	75.10	76.40	69.10
2003	1330	6567	8181.73	75.00	74.30	75.00	70.20	69.20
2004	1330	5147	6395.50	58.60	56.00	74.00	54.70	68.40
2005	1330	6573	8157.60	75.00	73.20	74.00	70.00	68.50
2006	1330	8671	10549.56	99.00	96.80	75.10	90.60	69.60
2007	1330	3402	3908.79	38.80	34.80	73.20	33.60	67.90
2008	1330	8570	10106.55	97.60	96.60	74.20	86.50	68.70
2009	1330	3670	4214.55	41.90	38.80	72.80	36.20	67.40
2010	1330	5394	6850.05	61.60	60.60	72.30	58.80	67.00
2011	1330	7462	9475.26	85.20	81.70	72.60	81.30	67.60
2012	1330	5934	7592.85	67.60	66.60	72.40	65.00	67.50
2013	1330	7299	9162.71	83.30	80.50	72.70	78.60	67.90
2014	1330	8460	10592.86	96.60	93.80	73.40	90.90	68.70
2015	1330	5656	6436.51	64.60	62.90	73.10	55.20	68.20
2016	1330	7250	8209.45	82.50	73.40	73.10	70.30	68.30
2017	1330	1858	2121.65	21.20	18.30	71.40	18.20	66.70
2018	1330	6597	8399.29	75.30	72.80	71.40	72.10	66.90
2019	1330	8227	9886.14	93.90	91.80	72.00	84.80	67.40
2020	1330	5481	6577.17	62.40	57.80	71.60	56.30	67.10
2021	1330	6749	8534.76	77.00	74.50	71.70	73.20	67.30
2022	1330	8569	10585.79	97.80	94.60	72.30	90.90	67.90
2023	1330	6036	7384.88	68.90	65.40	72.10	63.40	67.80