Point Beach 1

Operable

Details

Reactor Type	Pressurised Water Reactor (or PWR)
Model	W (2-loop) DRYAMB
Owner	Nextera Energy Resources, Llc
Operator	Nextera Energy Resources, Llc

Timeline

Construction Start	Wednesday, 19 July 1967
First Criticality	Monday, 2 November 1970
First Grid Connection	Friday, 6 November 1970
Commercial Operation	Monday, 21 December 1970

Specifications

Capacity Net	591 MWe
Capacity Gross	640 MWe
Thermal Capacity	1800 MWt
Design Net Capacity	497 MWe

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 (%)
1970	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1971	524	7699	3446.20	87.90	100.00	100.00	75.10	75.10
1972	524	6349	3085.50	72.30	100.00	100.00	67.00	71.00
1973	497	6867	2742.30	78.40	67.60	89.60	63.00	68.50
1974	497	7136	3144.30	81.50	81.40	87.60	72.20	69.40
1975	480	6297	2924.90	71.90	69.50	84.20	69.60	69.40
1976	492	7239	3392.50	82.40	78.40	83.20	78.50	70.90
1977	495	7733	3687.10	88.30	85.10	83.50	85.00	72.90
1978	495	7864	3794.50	89.80	87.50	84.00	87.50	74.70
1979	495	6455	3059.60	73.70	70.60	82.50	70.60	74.20
1980	495	6739	2479.30	76.70	77.00	82.00	57.00	72.50
1981	495	6834	2614.90	78.00	78.30	81.60	60.30	71.40
1982	495	7134	2701.70	81.40	81.50	81.60	62.30	70.70
1983	495	6498	2384.90	74.20	74.30	81.10	55.00	69.50
1984	485	6379	3109.21	72.60	72.60	80.50	73.00	69.70
1985	485	6917	3354.18	79.00	78.60	80.40	79.00	70.30
1986	485	7786	3770.07	88.90	88.70	80.90	88.70	71.40
1987	485	7348	3567.09	83.90	83.60	81.00	84.00	72.20
1988	485	7787	3830.95	88.60	88.50	81.40	89.90	73.10
1989	485	7706	3606.22	88.00	87.80	81.80	84.90	73.70
1990	485	7362	3531.73	84.00	83.80	81.90	83.10	74.20
1991	485	7524	3628.73	85.90	85.70	82.00	85.40	74.70
1992	485	7409	3605.64	84.40	84.10	82.10	84.60	75.20
1993	485	7799	3804.79	89.00	88.80	82.40	89.60	75.80
1994	485	8071	3905.06	92.10	92.00	82.80	91.90	76.40
1995	485	7768	3792.43	88.70	88.50	83.00	89.30	77.00
1996	485	8173	4003.33	93.00	93.00	83.40	94.00	77.60
1997	485	1872	853.50	21.40	21.30	81.20	20.10	75.50
1998	485	5489	2584.22	62.70	62.70	80.50	60.80	75.00
1999	510	7070	3489.33	80.70	80.00	80.50	81.40	75.20
2000	510	8391	4134.62	95.50	95.60	81.00	92.30	75.80
2001	510	7611	3702.10	86.90	87.00	81.20	82.90	76.00
2002	510	7964	3975.79	90.90	91.00	81.50	89.00	76.40
2003	516	8538	4343.00	97.50	97.50	82.00	96.20	77.10
2004	516	7186	3631.04	81.80	81.90	82.00	80.10	77.20
2005	512	7232	3641.04	82.60	82.60	82.00	81.20	77.30
2006	512	8760	4465.63	100.00	100.00	82.60	99.60	77.90
2007	512	7582	3822.30	86.60	86.60	82.70	85.20	78.10
2008	512	7365	3737.01	83.80	83.90	82.70	83.10	78.30
2009	512	8760	4385.38	100.00	100.00	83.20	97.80	78.80
2010	512	7870	3956.14	89.80	89.90	83.30	88.20	79.00
2011	512	6954	3525.04	79.40	79.40	83.20	78.60	79.00
2012	591	8737	5154.43	99.50	99.50	83.70	99.30	79.60
2013	591	7981	4707.21	91.10	91.10	83.90	90.90	79.90
2014	591	7956	4713.10	90.80	90.80	84.10	91.00	80.20
2015	591	8671	5191.57	99.00	99.00	84.50	100.30	80.70
2016	591	8196	4871.11	93.30	93.30	84.70	93.80	81.00
2017	591	8158	4842.86	93.10	93.10	84.90	93.50	81.40
2018	591	8675	5184.30	99.00	99.10	85.20	100.10	81.80
2019	591	8098	4792.60	92.40	92.40	85.40	92.60	82.10
2020	591	8181	4828.76	93.10	93.20	85.60	93.00	82.30
2021	591	8719	5123.07	99.50	99.50	85.90	99.00	82.70
2022	591	8097	4793.10	92.40	92.40	86.00	92.60	82.90
2023	591	8147	4815.15	93.00	93.20	86.20	93.00	83.10