Ringhals 1

Permanent Shutdown

Details

Reactor Type	Boiling Water Reactor (or BWR)
Model	ABB-I
Owner	Ringhals AB
Operator	Ringhals AB

Timeline

Construction Start	Saturday, 1 February 1969
First Criticality	Monday, 20 August 1973
First Grid Connection	Monday, 14 October 1974
Commercial Operation	Thursday, 1 January 1976
Permanent Shutdown	Wednesday, 30 December 2020

Specifications

Capacity Net	881 MWe
Capacity Gross	910 MWe
Thermal Capacity	2540 MWt
Design Net Capacity	881 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 (%)
1974	762	675	71.70	-	-	-	-	-
1975	760	2917	1133.20	-	-	-	-	-
1976	760	4269	2164.60	48.60	32.40	32.40	32.40	32.40
1977	760	6095	3531.20	69.60	53.00	42.70	53.00	42.70
1978	750	6099	4153.10	69.60	63.20	49.50	63.20	49.50
1979	750	6070	3868.20	69.30	58.80	51.80	58.90	51.80
1980	750	6362	4433.80	72.40	68.20	55.10	67.30	54.90
1981	750	6285	4059.40	71.80	61.80	56.20	61.80	56.00
1982	750	7162	4687.50	81.80	75.00	58.80	71.40	58.20
1983	750	5372	3265.00	61.30	49.70	57.70	49.70	57.20
1984	750	7382	4917.65	84.00	79.70	60.20	74.60	59.10
1985	750	7832	5168.85	89.40	86.00	62.70	78.70	61.00
1986	750	7203	4470.50	82.20	69.90	63.40	68.00	61.70
1987	750	7878	4872.69	89.90	77.70	64.60	74.20	62.70
1988	750	7338	4694.74	83.50	74.80	65.30	71.30	63.40
1989	750	7963	4855.30	90.90	81.80	66.50	73.40	64.10
1990	795	7918	4525.62	90.40	71.40	66.90	65.00	64.20
1991	795	8034	5638.95	91.70	82.50	67.90	81.00	65.30
1992	795	4938	3383.79	56.20	51.20	66.90	48.50	64.20
1993	795	6575	3996.35	75.10	68.50	67.00	57.40	63.80
1994	795	7189	5389.23	82.10	76.40	67.50	77.40	64.60
1995	826	7697	5666.97	87.90	78.20	68.00	78.30	65.30
1996	837	8008	6490.90	91.20	90.10	69.20	88.70	66.50
1997	830	3022	2236.34	34.50	30.50	67.30	30.80	64.80
1998	830	7605	5601.63	86.80	80.70	67.90	77.00	65.40
1999	825	6500	4930.37	74.20	68.40	67.90	68.20	65.50
2000	825	4659	3239.66	53.00	50.80	67.20	44.70	64.60
2001	825	7814	5835.00	89.20	86.10	68.00	80.70	65.20
2002	830	7667	5956.16	87.50	80.40	68.50	81.90	65.90
2003	830	6269	5104.28	71.60	70.20	68.50	70.20	66.10
2004	830	7974	6523.07	90.80	89.70	69.30	89.50	66.90
2005	830	7452	6064.85	85.10	83.50	69.80	83.40	67.50
2006	843	7982	6518.82	91.10	87.90	70.40	88.30	68.20
2007	843	7275	5963.38	83.00	79.40	70.70	80.80	68.60
2008	856	5480	4552.73	62.40	60.60	70.40	60.60	68.40
2009	856	1639	1314.31	18.70	17.40	68.70	17.50	66.80
2010	855	4518	3587.63	51.60	47.50	68.10	47.90	66.20
2011	854	7377	5971.23	84.20	80.00	68.40	79.80	66.60
2012	865	7322	5529.58	83.40	72.10	68.50	72.80	66.80
2013	878	7842	6120.55	89.50	79.00	68.80	79.60	67.10
2014	878	6449	5485.09	73.60	70.70	68.90	71.30	67.20
2015	881	7248	5774.14	82.70	74.50	69.00	74.80	67.50
2016	883	7802	6526.79	88.80	84.10	69.40	84.30	67.90
2017	883	5603	4796.19	64.00	62.00	69.20	62.00	67.80
2018	881	7753	6585.78	88.50	85.00	69.60	85.30	68.20
2019	881	7968	6736.43	91.00	86.90	70.10	87.30	68.70
2020	881	5981	4755.22	68.10	67.20	70.00	61.40	68.50