Table: French nuclear plant outages and restarts
18/04/2023 07:01
(Changes end dates for multiple outages, moves Gravelines 6 to under current outages)
April 18 (Reuters) - The following table provides information on outages at French
utility EDF's EDF.PA nuclear reactors.
France has 61,370 megawatts (MW) of nuclear generation capacity provided by 56 reactors,
data from power grid operator RTE shows.
Reuters estimates 24,500 MW, or about 40% of that capacity is offline. That puts online
availability at 36,870 MW or about 60%.
Please click on the link at the bottom to access the data.
CURRENT OUTAGES
REACTOR NAME CAPACITY (MW) OUTAGE START EXPECTED RESTART REASON
900 April July
Gravelines 6 + 18, 2023 17, 2023 ND Statutory outage
Nogent 2 1,300 April 15, 2023 Sept. 23, 2023 Statutory outage
Bugey 4 900 April 15, 2023 April 25, 2023 Planned outage
April April
Paluel 2 + 1,300 18, 2023 19, 2023 Unplanned outage
Civaux 2 1,500 April 6, 2023 April 21, 2023 Unplanned outage
Golfech 2 1,300 March 27, 2023 Sept. 4, 2023 Statutory outage
Cattenom 2 1,300 March 3, 2023 Aug. 12, 2023 Statutory outage
Dampierre 1 900 Feb. 26, 2023 May 22, 2023 Statutory outage
Chinon 4 900 Feb. 25, 2023 May 3, 2023 Statutory outage
St Alban 1 1,300 Feb. 24, 2023 June 28, 2023 Statutory outage
Paluel 1 1,300 Feb. 18, 2023 May 16, 2023 Statutory outage
900 Feb. June
Gravelines 1 + 11, 2023 3, 2023 ND Statutory outage
Blayais 4 900 Feb. 11, 2023 May 7, 2023 Statutory outage
900 Feb. Nov.
Chinon 1 + 7, 2023 18, 2023 ND Statutory outage
Penly 2 1,300 Aug. 20, 2022 June 11, 2023 Statutory outage
900 July May 6,
Blayais 1 + 31, 2022 2023 ND Statutory outage
April June
Flamanville 1 + 1,300 28, 2022 4, 2023 ND Statutory outage
March April
Cattenom 3 + 1,300 26, 2022 18, 2023 ND Statutory outage
Feb. June
Golfech 1 + 1,300 26, 2022 12, 2023 ND Statutory outage
Chooz 1 1,500 Feb. 11, 2022 May 8, 2023 Statutory outage
Penly 1 1,300 Oct. 2, 2021 May 12, 2023 Statutory outage
TOTAL OUTAGES
24,500
PLANNED OUTAGES
IN FUTURE
Tricastin 2 900 April 21, 2023 July 16, 2023 Statutory outage
Cruas 4 900 April 22, 2023 June 2, 2023 Statutory outage
Tricastin 4 900 April 29, 2023 June 26, 2023 Statutory outage
Civaux 1 1,500 May 13, 2023 May 21, 2023 Statutory outage
Chinon 3 900 May 2, 2023 July 26, 2023 Statutory outage
1300 May Oct.
Belleville 2 + 3, 2023 ND 10, 2023 ND Statutory outage
Cruas 1 900 May 6, 2023 July 31, 2023 Statutory outage
Chinon 2 900 May 6, 2023 May 9, 2023 Statutory outage
Bugey 5 900 May 6, 2023 June 18, 2023 Statutory outage
Dampierre 4 900 May 27, 2023 July 06, 2023 Statutory outage
Cattenom 1 1300 May 27, 2023 Nov. 3, 2023 Statutory outage
Blayais 2 900 May 27, 2023 Nov. 25, 2023 Statutory outage
Gravelines 2 900 June 10, 2023 Dec. 24, 2023 Statutory outage
Cattenom 3 1,300 June 10, 2023 July 23, 2023 Statutory outage
Blayais 3 900 June 24, 2023 Aug. 3, 2023 Statutory outage
Belleville 1 1,300 June 24, 2023 Dec. 1, 2023 Statutory outage
Tricastin 3 900 July 15, 2023 Aug. 24, 2023 Statutory outage
Bugey 2 900 July 22, 2023 Oct. 25, 2023 Statutory outage
Cattenom 3 1,300 Oct. 14, 2023 Nov. 26, 2023 Statutory outage
RECENT RESTARTS
REACTOR NAME CAPACITY (MW) OUTAGE START RESTART DATE REASON
April April
Paluel 2 + 1,300 8, 2023 18, 2023 ND Planned outage
Chooz 2 1,500 Feb. 9, 2023 April 15, 2023 Unplanned outage
Nogent 1 1,300 April 11, 2023 April 13, 2023 Unplanned outage
Paluel 4 1,300 April 3, 2023 April 4, 2023 Unplanned outage
Civaux 2 1,500 Nov. 20, 2021 April 3, 2023 Statutory outage
Bugey 3 900 March 24, 2023 March 29, 2023 Unplanned outage
Gravelines 2 900 March 11, 2023 March 11, 2023 Planned outage
Bugey 5 900 Feb. 19, 2023 Feb. 22, 2023 Unplanned outage
Dampierre 4 900 Feb. 17, 2023 Feb. 22, 2023 Planned outage
Cruas 4 900 Feb. 18, 2023 Feb. 18, 2023 Planned outage
Gravelines 4 900 Oct. 26, 2022 Feb. 4, 2023 Statutory outage
Dampierre 2 900 Feb. 1, 2023 Feb. 2, 2023 Planned outage
Cattenom 1 1,300 June 11, 2022 Jan. 31 2023 Statutory outage
Blayais 3 900 Jan. 19, 2023 Jan. 26, 2023 Unplanned outage
Civaux 1 1,500 Aug. 21, 2021 Jan. 25, 2023 Statutory outage
Gravelines 3 900 Jan. 16, 2023 Jan. 22, 2023 Unplanned outage
Tricastin 4 900 Jan. 12, 2023 Jan. 16, 2023 Planned outage
Chinon 2 900 Jan. 14, 2023 Jan. 15, 2023 Planned outage
Cruas 2 900 Jan. 14, 2023 Jan. 15, 2023 Planned outage
+: Latest change
ND: New date
NOTE: Data excludes partial capacity cuts. Data on those can be seen on RTE's website: https://www.services-rte.com/en/view-data-published-by-rte/downtime-of-generation-resources.html
(Reporting by Seher Dareen in Bengaluru)
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