Dresden Generating Station — Grundy, IL — Operational Power Plant
Total Capacity
2,018.6 MW
Summer: 1,797 MW | Winter: 1,871.8 MW
Technology
Nuclear
2 generators
First Unit Online
August 1, 1970
Dresden Generating Station is a nuclear power plant in Grundy County, IL with 2 generating units totaling 2,018.6 MW of nameplate capacity. It is operated by Constellation Nuclear. Its first unit came online in 1970.
About this plant
Dresden Generating Station is the first privately financed nuclear power plant built in the United States. Dresden 1 was activated in 1960 and retired in 1978. Operating since 1970 are Dresden units 2 and 3, two General Electric BWR-3 boiling water reactors. Dresden Station is located on a 953-acre (386 ha) site in Grundy County, Illinois near the city of Morris. It is at the head of the Illinois River, where the Des Plaines River and Kankakee River meet. It is immediately northeast of the Morris Operation—the only de facto high-level radioactive waste storage site in the United States. It serves Chicago and the northern quarter of the state of Illinois, capable of producing 867 megawatts of electricity from each of its two reactors, enough to power over one million average American homes.
Source: Wikipedia
Capacity rank
- #24 in the U.S. by capacity
- #4 in IL by capacity
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Monthly generation history
Source: EIA Form 923
Generators (2)
2 generators
2 operational generators totaling 2,018.6 MW · online 1970–1971
Plant Information
| Plant ID | 869 |
| Plant Name | Dresden Generating Station |
| Operator | Constellation Nuclear |
| Sector | IPP Non-CHP |
| Balancing Authority | PJM |
| Power Market | |
| County | Grundy |
| State | Illinois (all interconnection requests in Illinois) |
| Status | Operational |
| Generation Type(s) | Nuclear |
| Total Nameplate Capacity (MW) | 2018.6 |
| Total Summer Capacity (MW) | 1797 |
| Total Winter Capacity (MW) | 1871.8 |
| Generating Units | 2 |
| Operational Units | 2 |
| Planned Units | 0 |
U.S. county map showing Grundy, IL
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