Biblis B

Permanent Shutdown

Details

Reactor Type	Pressurised Water Reactor (or PWR)
Model	PWR
Owner	RWE Power AG
Operator	RWE Power AG

Timeline

Construction Start	Tuesday, 1 February 1972
First Criticality	Thursday, 25 March 1976
First Grid Connection	Sunday, 25 April 1976
Commercial Operation	Monday, 31 January 1977
Permanent Shutdown	Saturday, 6 August 2011

Specifications

Capacity Net	1240 MWe
Capacity Gross	1300 MWe
Thermal Capacity	3733 MWt
Design Net Capacity	1178 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 (%)
1976	1178	1027	705.70	-	-	-	-	-
1977	1178	7490	8017.20	85.60	78.50	78.50	77.40	77.40
1978	1178	6015	5658.00	68.70	55.30	66.40	54.80	65.60
1979	1178	7254	6026.00	82.80	77.90	70.40	58.40	63.10
1980	1240	5761	5592.00	65.60	57.80	67.00	51.30	60.00
1981	1240	6804	8105.60	77.70	75.40	68.80	74.60	63.10
1982	1240	7681	9196.00	87.70	85.50	71.70	84.70	66.80
1983	1240	5360	6490.00	61.20	60.60	70.00	59.80	65.80
1984	1240	7338	8216.00	83.50	77.60	71.00	75.40	67.00
1985	1240	6918	7780.21	79.00	75.30	71.50	71.60	67.50
1986	1240	6370	6722.62	72.70	68.20	71.20	61.90	67.00
1987	1240	7273	5622.99	83.00	76.20	71.60	51.80	65.50
1988	1240	6593	5591.76	75.10	74.80	71.90	51.30	64.30
1989	1240	4807	5165.80	54.90	53.60	70.50	47.60	63.00
1990	1240	8631	9100.10	98.50	90.00	71.90	83.80	64.50
1991	1240	3626	3917.76	41.40	39.30	69.70	36.10	62.60
1992	1240	7184	7630.50	81.80	81.50	70.40	70.00	63.10
1993	1240	7368	7441.76	84.10	83.80	71.20	68.50	63.40
1994	1240	7468	7973.79	85.20	84.90	72.00	73.40	64.00
1995	1240	6603	7854.23	75.40	75.40	72.20	72.30	64.40
1996	1240	6762	7857.36	77.00	80.10	72.60	72.10	64.80
1997	1240	7560	8469.43	86.30	85.90	73.20	78.00	65.40
1998	1240	7409	8182.07	84.60	84.40	73.70	75.30	65.90
1999	1240	7474	8707.40	85.30	85.00	74.20	80.20	66.50
2000	1240	7950	8295.68	90.50	89.20	74.80	76.20	66.90
2001	1240	6470	7442.24	73.90	73.80	74.80	68.50	67.00
2002	1240	8371	10173.60	95.60	95.20	75.60	93.70	68.00
2003	1240	6630	7792.04	75.70	75.30	75.60	71.70	68.20
2004	1240	7309	8768.39	83.20	82.50	75.80	80.50	68.60
2005	1240	6014	6892.46	68.60	64.00	75.40	63.40	68.40
2006	1240	6929	8312.14	79.10	77.90	75.50	76.50	68.70
2007	1240	731	885.24	8.30	8.20	73.30	8.20	66.70
2008	1240	8766	10367.97	99.80	96.10	74.00	95.20	67.60
2009	1240	1513	1511.33	17.30	14.10	72.20	13.90	66.00
2010	1240	8138	9737.54	92.90	90.40	72.80	89.60	66.70
2011	1240	1342	1640.98	26.40	59.30	72.50	26.00	66.00