Paluel 4

Operable

Details

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

Timeline

Construction Start	Friday, 1 February 1980
First Criticality	Saturday, 29 March 1986
First Grid Connection	Friday, 11 April 1986
Commercial Operation	Sunday, 1 June 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 (%)
1986	1290	5343	6118.60	83.70	85.20	85.20	78.00	78.00
1987	1290	6289	8014.60	71.80	69.70	75.50	70.90	73.60
1988	1330	4812	5909.00	54.80	53.60	66.80	50.60	64.50
1989	1330	6349	8268.30	72.50	71.00	68.00	71.00	66.30
1990	1330	6770	8067.69	77.30	78.50	70.30	69.20	67.00
1991	1330	6677	8325.58	76.20	74.20	71.00	71.50	67.80
1992	1330	4529	5553.31	51.60	48.60	67.60	47.50	64.70
1993	1330	6938	8683.78	79.20	75.40	68.60	74.50	66.00
1994	1330	6945	8329.73	79.30	76.50	69.50	71.50	66.60
1995	1330	7354	8346.82	84.00	88.10	71.50	71.60	67.20
1996	1330	6745	7848.12	76.80	72.40	71.60	67.20	67.20
1997	1330	7219	8633.65	82.40	78.20	72.10	74.10	67.80
1998	1330	6506	7776.71	74.30	68.30	71.80	66.80	67.70
1999	1330	8345	9879.73	95.30	94.60	73.50	84.80	68.90
2000	1330	7532	8358.80	85.80	84.40	74.30	71.60	69.10
2001	1330	7489	8581.02	85.50	82.10	74.80	73.60	69.40
2002	1330	8216	9303.30	93.80	92.70	75.90	79.80	70.00
2003	1330	7307	7960.72	83.40	81.90	76.20	68.30	69.90
2004	1330	6027	7138.56	68.60	64.60	75.60	61.10	69.50
2005	1330	7949	9682.12	90.70	89.20	76.30	83.10	70.20
2006	1330	7320	8270.83	83.60	77.20	76.30	71.00	70.20
2007	1330	6824	8421.51	77.90	73.70	76.20	72.30	70.30
2008	1330	6286	7962.59	71.60	69.60	75.90	68.20	70.20
2009	1330	7944	9337.13	90.70	88.90	76.40	80.10	70.60
2010	1330	6085	7709.46	69.50	67.40	76.10	66.20	70.40
2011	1330	7835	9571.58	89.40	87.90	76.60	82.20	70.90
2012	1330	8467	10040.06	96.40	97.20	77.30	85.90	71.50
2013	1330	5984	7036.36	68.30	64.00	76.80	60.40	71.10
2014	1330	7539	8962.84	86.10	84.80	77.10	76.90	71.30
2015	1330	7649	8807.53	87.30	89.80	77.60	75.60	71.40
2016	1330	6369	7284.06	72.50	65.10	77.20	62.40	71.10
2017	1330	7455	9082.31	85.10	81.00	77.30	78.00	71.30
2018	1330	8304	10041.61	94.80	91.70	77.70	86.20	71.80
2019	1330	1688	1977.33	19.30	17.00	75.90	17.00	70.20
2020	1330	8041	9859.60	91.50	87.50	76.20	84.40	70.60
2021	1330	7416	9058.04	84.70	81.50	76.40	77.80	70.80
2022	1330	5375	6745.15	61.40	59.00	75.90	57.90	70.40
2023	1330	6556	8060.67	74.80	71.70	75.80	69.20	70.40