Load factors to end December 2013

摘要

The 400 nuclear reactor units (374.2 GW) with data available for the full year 2013 generated a total of 2346 TWh of electricity. This was up very slightly (1.2%) on the 2012 figures, but continues to be much lower than the 2500 TWh of nuclear electricity generated in 2011. Together they generated a total of 66,074 TWh during 11,501 years of operation, achieving a mean average lifetime load factor of 72.8, which is about the same as the last few years. In 2013, there were more reactors operating in the three highest percentile brackets (85% load factor and above, as shown in Figure 7) than in 2012, suggesting normality is returning after Fukushima. The most significant trend was the increase in units with load factors of 95% or above, 53 compared with 41 last year.