Constellation’s Carbon-free Nuclear Fleet Ran at Near 100% Capacity During Hottest Summer on Record
21 Setembro 2023 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
While wildfires, hurricanes and extreme heat battered Americans
from coast to coast during the hottest summer in Earth’s recorded
history, Constellation’s carbon-free nuclear units ran nearly 100%
of the time, powering more than 15 million homes and
businesses.
Constellation’s 21 reactors at 12 sites from the Midwest to the
Mid-Atlantic and Northeast operated at 99.4% during the months of
June, July and August. That near-perfect reliability helped
Constellation power the equivalent of 15 million average American
homes through a growing number of extreme heat days– all without
adding any harmful emissions to the environment.
To prepare for the summer heat, technical experts performed tens
of thousands of tasks at Constellation nuclear plants during spring
refueling and maintenance outages designed to ensure all reactors
would run uninterrupted through the peak summer heat. Among more
than half a billion dollars spent during spring outage activities,
the most important tasks were technology upgrades, major component
refurbishments, and the loading of new fuel – a task already
beginning for the fall maintenance season.
“As the quantity and severity of these extreme weather events
increase, Constellation’s clean energy centers continue to play a
vital role in providing reliable and affordable carbon-free energy
to American homes and businesses,” said Bryan Hanson,
Constellation’s executive vice president and chief generation
officer. “As the summer storms and excessive heat wane, we’re
shifting our focus to a comprehensive fleetwide winter preparedness
campaign, to ensure that we are equally prepared for extreme cold
temperatures.”
Constellation’s nuclear fleet in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast
U.S. includes Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant in Calvert County,
Maryland; Pennsylvania facilities Limerick Generating Station and
Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station in Montgomery and York counties;
and New York facilities Fitzpatrick Nuclear Power Plant and Nine
Mile Point Nuclear Station in Oswego County and Ginna Nuclear Power
Plant in Wayne County. Its Illinois nuclear fleet includes
Braidwood Generating Station in Will County, Byron Generating
Station in Ogle County, Clinton Power Station in DeWitt County,
Dresden Generating Station in Grundy County, LaSalle County
Generating Station, and Quad Cities Generating in Rock Island
County.
About Constellation
A Fortune 200 company headquartered in Baltimore, Constellation
Energy Corporation (Nasdaq: CEG) is the nation’s largest producer
of clean, carbon-free energy and a leading supplier of energy
products and services to businesses, homes, community aggregations
and public sector customers across the continental United States,
including three fourths of Fortune 100 companies. With annual
output that is nearly 90% carbon-free, our hydro, wind and solar
facilities paired with the nation’s largest nuclear fleet have the
generating capacity to power the equivalent of 15 million homes,
providing about 10% of the nation’s clean energy. We are further
accelerating the nation’s transition to a carbon-free future by
helping our customers reach their sustainability goals, setting our
own ambitious goal of achieving 100% carbon-free generation by
2040, and by investing in promising emerging technologies to
eliminate carbon emissions across all sectors of the economy.
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Paul Dempsey Constellation Communications 815-409-1260
Paul.dempsey@constellation.com
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