Hinkley Point B 2

Permanent Shutdown

Details

Reactor Type	Gas-Cooled Reactor (or GCR)
Model	AGR
Owner	EDF Energy
Operator	EDF Energy

Timeline

Construction Start	Friday, 1 September 1967
First Criticality	Sunday, 1 February 1976
First Grid Connection	Thursday, 5 February 1976
Commercial Operation	Monday, 27 September 1976
Permanent Shutdown	Wednesday, 6 July 2022

Specifications

Capacity Net	480 MWe
Capacity Gross	655 MWe
Thermal Capacity	1494 MWt
Design Net Capacity	625 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 (%)
1976	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1977	400	2756	1044.00	31.60	74.60	74.60	29.90	29.90
1978	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1979	400	3512	1499.67	40.20	38.20	56.40	42.90	36.40
1980	500	6390	3008.94	73.20	69.30	61.20	72.50	49.80
1981	520	5054	2488.82	56.80	54.70	59.30	53.80	51.00
1982	520	6834	3155.05	78.20	69.80	61.60	69.40	55.10
1983	520	6839	3454.48	78.30	74.10	63.90	76.00	59.00
1984	520	8228	4393.54	94.20	89.40	67.80	96.70	64.80
1985	520	5950	3229.92	68.10	66.70	67.70	71.10	65.60
1986	560	7257	3497.25	84.20	75.10	68.60	72.50	66.50
1987	560	6333	2971.07	71.10	60.60	67.70	59.60	65.70
1988	560	8467	4268.17	96.90	86.60	69.60	87.20	67.90
1989	560	4896	2484.57	56.00	65.40	69.20	50.80	66.30
1990	560	8565	4463.54	98.00	91.20	71.10	91.20	68.40
1991	560	4432	2353.52	50.70	57.40	70.00	48.10	66.80
1992	585	7225	3901.97	81.10	76.30	70.50	75.10	67.40
1993	610	6575	3743.03	75.30	71.40	70.60	71.70	67.80
1994	610	8602	4852.23	98.50	91.10	71.90	91.00	69.30
1995	610	7411	4518.09	84.40	84.60	72.70	84.30	70.30
1996	610	5615	3119.85	63.90	59.10	71.90	58.20	69.60
1997	610	7958	4512.87	90.60	85.00	72.70	84.20	70.40
1998	610	8641	4738.89	98.40	88.30	73.50	88.40	71.30
1999	610	7402	4082.29	84.30	75.80	73.60	76.20	71.60
2000	610	7851	4189.37	89.40	78.90	73.90	78.20	71.90
2001	610	8406	4772.43	95.70	84.10	74.30	89.10	72.70
2002	610	6163	3257.33	70.40	61.20	73.80	61.00	72.20
2003	610	8575	4619.46	97.90	86.50	74.30	86.40	72.80
2004	610	8163	4150.52	92.90	77.70	74.40	77.50	73.00
2005	610	6544	3357.19	74.70	63.30	74.00	62.80	72.60
2006	600	6051	3132.91	69.10	59.80	73.50	59.40	72.10
2007	430	4806	1812.88	54.90	44.00	72.70	43.80	71.30
2008	410	6821	2709.85	77.60	74.10	72.70	74.30	71.40
2009	430	7268	3016.26	83.00	79.60	72.90	81.00	71.60
2010	430	7693	3263.25	87.80	84.80	73.10	86.60	72.00
2011	435	6580	2746.32	75.10	72.00	73.10	72.10	72.00
2012	435	8264	3480.49	94.10	90.40	73.50	91.10	72.40
2013	440	8196	3651.26	93.60	90.50	73.90	94.70	72.90
2014	470	8760	4091.01	100.00	96.70	74.40	99.40	73.50
2015	475	6722	3113.74	76.70	74.00	74.40	74.80	73.60
2016	475	8649	4022.36	98.50	95.00	74.90	96.40	74.10
2017	475	7509	3485.07	85.70	83.10	75.10	83.80	74.30
2018	480	7222	3379.89	82.40	80.20	75.20	80.40	74.40
2019	480	8652	3983.59	98.80	94.40	75.60	94.70	74.90
2020	480	1246	500.91	14.20	13.60	74.30	11.90	73.50
2021	480	5469	2426.04	62.40	58.70	74.00	57.70	73.20
2022	480	4201	1930.05	93.70	90.00	74.10	90.10	73.40