Table: French nuclear plant outages and restarts
29/05/2023 07:51
(Adds Cruas 4 and changes end dates for Cruas 1, Gravelines 1 under current outages)
May 29 (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 23,800 MW, or about 39% of that capacity is offline. That puts online
availability at 37,570 MW or about 61%.
Please click on the link at the bottom to access the data.
CURRENT OUTAGES
REACTOR NAME CAPACITY (MW) OUTAGE START EXPECTED RESTART REASON
Cruas 900 May May
4 + 28, 2023 31, 2023 Unplanned outage
May Oct.
Belleville 2 + 1,300 27, 2023 6, 2023 Statutory outage
May Oct.
Cattenom 1 + 1,300 27, 2023 9, 2023 Statutory outage
Tricastin 2 900 May 25, 2023 Aug. 20, 2023 Statutory outage
Cruas 900 May Aug.
1 + 20, 2023 16, 2023 ND Statutory outage
Bugey 5 900 May 6, 2023 June 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 Aug. 25, 2023 Statutory outage
Golfech 2 1,300 March 27, 2023 Sept. 4, 2023 Statutory outage
Cattenom 2 1,300 March 3, 2023 Aug. 1, 2023 Statutory outage
Dampierre 1 900 Feb. 26, 2023 June 7, 2023 Statutory outage
St Alban 1 1,300 Feb. 24, 2023 June 28, 2023 Statutory outage
900 Feb. July
Gravelines 1 + 11, 2023 2, 2023 ND Statutory outage
Blayais 4 900 Feb. 11, 2023 June 7, 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 June 9, 2023 Statutory outage
Flamanville 1 1,300 April 28, 2022 Aug. 13, 2023 Statutory outage
Golfech 1 1,300 Feb. 26, 2022 June 23, 2023 Statutory outage
Penly 1 1,300 Oct. 2, 2021 June 11, 2023 Statutory outage
TOTAL OUTAGES
23,800
PLANNED OUTAGES
IN FUTURE
Cruas 4 900 June 3, 2023 July 13, 2023 Statutory outage
Dampierre 4 900 June 10, 2023 July 20, 2023 Statutory outage
Gravelines 2 900 June 10, 2023 Dec. 24, 2023 Statutory outage
Blayais 2 900 June 10, 2023 Dec. 9, 2023 Statutory outage
Blayais 3 900 June 22, 2023 June 24, 2023 Statutory outage
Belleville 1 1,300 July 8, 2023 Nov. 30, 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 Feb. 7, 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
Feb. May
Paluel 1 + 1,300 17, 2023 27, 2023 Statutory outage
900 May May
Tricastin 1 + 25, 2023 28, 2023 Unplanned outage
Cruas 2 900 May 23, 2023 May 24, 2023 Unplanned outage
Civaux 1 1,500 May 12, 2023 May 19, 2023 Statutory outage
Dampierre 4 900 May 10, 2023 May 14, 2023 Forced outage
Chooz 1 1,500 Feb. 11, 2022 May 10, 2023 Statutory outage
Chinon 4 900 Feb. 25, 2023 May 9, 2023 Statutory outage
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
+: 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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