Quad Cities 2

Operational

Details

Reactor Type	Boiling Water Reactor (or BWR)
Model	BWR-3 (Mark 1)
Owner	Exelon (75%) Midamerican Energy (25%)
Operator	Exelon Generation Co., Llc

Timeline

Construction Start	Wednesday, 15 February 1967
First Criticality	Wednesday, 26 April 1972
First Grid Connection	Tuesday, 23 May 1972
Commercial Operation	Saturday, 10 March 1973

Specifications

Capacity Net	911 MWe
Capacity Gross	940 MWe
Thermal Capacity	2957 MWt
Design Net Capacity	789 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 (%)
1972	815	2637	1606.00	-	-	-	-	-
1973	800	7405	5208.90	84.90	86.40	86.40	74.80	74.80
1974	800	7232	4643.80	82.60	82.60	84.30	66.30	70.10
1975	798	4555	2490.90	52.00	35.70	67.20	35.60	58.00
1976	769	7143	4320.00	81.30	64.00	66.40	64.00	59.50
1977	769	7118	4369.30	81.30	64.90	66.10	64.90	60.60
1978	769	7022	4429.10	80.20	65.70	66.00	65.80	61.50
1979	769	7686	3993.60	87.70	59.30	65.10	59.30	61.10
1980	769	5486	3651.60	62.40	62.50	64.80	54.10	60.20
1981	769	5957	3770.70	68.00	68.10	65.10	56.00	59.80
1982	769	7343	5062.30	83.80	84.00	67.00	75.20	61.30
1983	769	5620	3158.50	64.20	64.20	66.80	46.90	60.00
1984	769	6837	4984.45	77.80	77.90	67.70	73.80	61.20
1985	769	6247	4560.69	71.30	71.30	68.00	67.70	61.70
1986	769	6399	4727.96	73.00	74.20	68.40	70.20	62.30
1987	769	6832	4952.99	78.00	78.10	69.10	73.50	63.00
1988	769	6193	4178.87	70.50	70.60	69.20	61.90	63.00
1989	769	8363	5743.07	95.50	95.50	70.70	85.20	64.30
1990	769	6186	4373.60	70.60	70.40	70.70	64.90	64.30
1991	769	7731	5285.18	88.20	88.30	71.60	78.50	65.00
1992	769	5621	3464.19	64.00	64.00	71.20	51.30	64.40
1993	769	4538	3111.82	51.80	51.80	70.30	46.20	63.50
1994	769	5745	4013.35	65.60	65.70	70.10	59.60	63.30
1995	769	3966	2496.98	45.30	45.30	69.00	37.10	62.20
1996	769	6348	4666.84	72.30	72.30	69.20	69.10	62.50
1997	769	3718	2627.74	42.40	42.30	68.10	39.00	61.50
1998	769	5095	3819.59	58.20	58.20	67.70	56.70	61.30
1999	769	8537	6596.69	97.40	97.50	68.80	97.90	62.70
2000	769	8156	6220.62	92.80	92.90	69.70	92.10	63.80
2001	769	8058	6273.82	92.00	91.90	70.40	93.10	64.80
2002	855	7852	6556.83	89.60	90.40	71.20	89.80	65.70
2003	855	8181	6975.11	93.40	94.00	72.00	93.10	66.60
2004	855	7955	6179.39	90.60	90.50	72.60	82.30	67.20
2005	864	8533	7036.91	97.40	97.40	73.40	93.00	68.00
2006	867	8000	6611.02	91.30	91.30	74.00	87.00	68.70
2007	867	8720	7505.84	99.50	99.60	74.80	98.80	69.60
2008	867	7852	6734.60	89.40	89.40	75.30	88.40	70.20
2009	867	8760	6909.37	100.00	100.00	76.00	91.00	70.80
2010	892	7849	7150.14	89.60	89.90	76.40	91.50	71.40
2011	892	8743	8092.34	99.80	99.80	77.10	103.60	72.40
2012	911	8004	7375.56	91.10	91.10	77.50	92.20	72.90
2013	911	8723	8051.85	99.60	99.60	78.10	100.90	73.70
2014	911	7886	7220.77	90.00	90.00	78.40	90.50	74.20
2015	911	8760	8042.55	100.00	100.00	79.00	100.80	74.90
2016	911	8336	7550.87	94.90	94.90	79.40	94.40	75.40
2017	911	8604	7903.72	98.20	98.20	79.90	99.00	76.00
2018	911	8282	7424.55	94.50	94.70	80.20	93.00	76.40
2019	911	8760	8029.05	100.00	100.00	80.70	100.60	77.00
2020	911	8376	7636.48	95.40	95.40	81.10	95.40	77.40
2021	911	8760	8073.93	100.00	100.00	81.50	101.20	77.90
2022	911	7782	7026.45	88.80	88.80	81.70	88.00	78.20