Table: French nuclear plant outages and restarts
08/05/2023 07:54
(Revises end date for multiple outages under current outages, moves Bugey 5 from future to
current outages)
May 8 (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 22,200 MW, or about 36% of that capacity is offline. That puts
online availability at 39,170 MW or about 64%.
Please click on the link at the bottom to access the data.
CURRENT OUTAGES
REACTOR NAME CAPACITY (MW) OUTAGE START EXPECTED RESTART REASON
900 May June
Bugey 5 + 6, 2023 18, 2023 Statutory outage
Chinon 3 900 May 2, 2023 July 26, 2023 Statutory outage
Tricastin 4 900 April 22, 2023 June 19, 2023 Statutory outage
Gravelines 6 900 April 18, 2023 July 17, 2023 Statutory outage
Nogent 2 1,300 April 15, 2023 Sept. 23, 2023 Statutory 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
900 Feb. May 8,
Chinon 4 + 25, 2023 2023 ND Statutory outage
St Alban 1 1,300 Feb. 24, 2023 June 28, 2023 Statutory outage
Paluel 1 1,300 Feb. 17, 2023 May 22, 2023 Statutory outage
900 Feb. June
Gravelines 1 + 11, 2023 21, 2023 ND Statutory outage
Blayais 4 900 Feb. 11, 2023 May 17, 2023 Statutory outage
Chinon 1 900 Feb. 7, 2023 Nov. 18, 2023 Statutory outage
Penly 2 1,300 Aug. 20, 2022 June 11, 2023 Statutory outage
Blayais 1 900 July 31, 2022 May 20, 2023 Statutory outage
Flamanville 1 1,300 April 28, 2022 June 5, 2023 Statutory outage
Golfech 1 1,300 Feb. 26, 2022 June 23, 2023 Statutory outage
Feb. May 8,
Chooz 1 + 1,500 11, 2022 2023 ND Statutory outage
Penly 1 1,300 Oct. 2, 2021 May 22, 2023 Statutory outage
TOTAL OUTAGES
22,200
PLANNED OUTAGES
IN FUTURE
Belleville 2 1300 May 13, 2023 Oct. 20, 2023 Statutory outage
Civaux 1 1,500 May 13, 2023 May 21, 2023 Statutory outage
Chinon 2 900 May 18, 2023 May 21, 2023 Statutory outage
Cruas 1 900 May 20, 2023 Aug. 13, 2023 Statutory outage
Tricastin 2 900 May 27, 2023 Aug. 20, 2023 Statutory outage
Dampierre 4 900 May 27, 2023 July 06, 2023 Statutory outage
Blayais 2 900 May 27, 2023 Nov. 25, 2023 Statutory outage
Cruas 4 900 June 3, 2023 July 13, 2023 Statutory outage
Gravelines 2 900 June 10, 2023 Dec. 24, 2023 Statutory outage
Blayais 3 900 June 21, 2023 June 26, 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
Cruas 3 900 Aug. 19, 2023 Sept. 28, 2023 Statutory outage
Nogent 1 1,300 Sept. 23, 2023 March 1, 2024 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
Paluel 2 1,300 April 22, 2023 April 26, 2023 Planned outage
Bugey 4 900 April 24, 2023 April 27, 2023 Unplanned outage
Civaux 2 1,500 April 6, 2023 April 23, 2023 Unplanned outage
Paluel 2 1,300 April 18, 2023 April 19, 2023 Unplanned outage
Cattenom 3 1,300 March 26, 2022 April 18, 2023 Statutory outage
Paluel 2 1,300 April 8, 2023 April 18, 2023 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
+: 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 Kavya Guduru in Bengaluru)
((Kavya.Guduru@thomsonreuters.com;))
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