Point Lepreau

Operable

Details

Reactor Type	Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor (or PHWR)
Model	CANDU 6
Owner	Energie NB Power
Operator	Energie NB Power

Timeline

Construction Start	Thursday, 1 May 1975
First Criticality	Sunday, 25 July 1982
First Grid Connection	Saturday, 11 September 1982
Commercial Operation	Tuesday, 1 February 1983

Specifications

Capacity Net	660 MWe
Capacity Gross	705 MWe
Thermal Capacity	2180 MWt
Design Net Capacity	660 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 (%)
1982	635	0	691.00	-	-	-	-	-
1983	640	7875	4742.90	89.40	86.00	86.00	85.80	85.80
1984	635	7927	5000.94	90.20	88.90	87.60	89.70	87.80
1985	635	8547	5421.91	97.60	96.90	90.70	97.50	91.10
1986	635	8257	5223.09	94.30	93.40	91.40	93.90	91.80
1987	635	8110	5107.73	92.60	91.20	91.40	91.80	91.80
1988	635	8383	5338.25	95.40	94.80	92.00	95.70	92.50
1989	635	8271	5266.67	94.40	93.60	92.20	94.70	92.80
1990	635	8384	5333.71	95.70	94.70	92.50	95.90	93.20
1991	635	8500	5437.17	97.00	96.70	93.00	97.80	93.70
1992	635	7748	4829.78	88.20	85.80	92.30	86.60	93.00
1993	635	8391	5320.00	95.80	95.10	92.50	95.60	93.20
1994	635	8270	5230.10	94.40	93.50	92.60	94.00	93.30
1995	635	2615	1611.40	29.80	29.00	87.70	29.00	88.30
1996	635	7363	4587.83	83.80	81.40	87.20	82.20	87.90
1997	635	5564	3455.59	63.50	61.60	85.50	62.10	86.20
1998	635	6111	3782.35	69.80	66.00	84.30	68.00	85.00
1999	635	6797	4082.74	77.60	72.00	83.60	73.40	84.30
2000	635	6792	3966.85	77.30	70.50	82.80	71.10	83.60
2001	635	7418	4451.33	84.70	79.10	82.60	80.00	83.40
2002	635	6107	3760.64	69.70	67.60	81.90	67.60	82.60
2003	635	7869	4739.52	89.80	84.40	82.00	85.20	82.70
2004	635	7310	4299.74	83.20	82.60	82.00	77.10	82.50
2005	635	7632	4372.64	87.10	86.80	82.20	78.60	82.30
2006	635	7755	4361.99	88.50	88.70	82.50	78.40	82.20
2007	635	7511	4121.82	85.70	86.00	82.60	74.10	81.80
2008	635	2111	1150.56	24.00	24.00	80.40	20.60	79.50
2009	635	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	77.40	0.00	76.50
2010	635	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	74.60	0.00	73.80
2011	635	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	72.00	0.00	71.20
2012	660	966	411.48	11.00	7.50	69.90	7.30	69.10
2013	660	7879	4111.15	90.00	70.80	69.90	71.10	69.10
2014	660	7229	4724.62	82.50	81.90	70.30	81.70	69.50
2015	660	6993	4277.04	79.80	74.60	70.40	74.00	69.70
2016	660	6989	4548.99	79.60	78.20	70.70	78.50	70.00
2017	660	7928	5151.32	90.50	89.20	71.20	89.10	70.50
2018	660	7469	4894.15	85.30	84.50	71.60	84.60	70.90
2019	660	7663	5015.68	87.50	86.70	72.00	86.80	71.40
2020	660	7302	4801.00	83.10	82.50	72.30	82.80	71.70
2021	660	7038	4418.52	80.30	76.40	72.40	76.40	71.80
2022	660	5499	3546.75	62.80	61.30	72.10	61.40	71.50
2023	660	7366	4764.67	84.10	82.40	72.40	82.40	71.80