Dresden Nuclear Generation Station, Units 2 & 3 is a nuclear project with 3 MW of capacity located in Grundy County, IL. The project is currently operational in the PJM interconnection queue. The proposed completion date is December 1, 2012. The matched operating facility ranks #24 nationally and #4 in IL by nameplate capacity. Reported owner / operator of the matched facility: Constellation Nuclear (EIA Form 860). Most recent reported annual generation at the matched facility: 15,205,342 MWh at a 86.0% capacity factor (EIA Form 923). Per Wikipedia: Dresden Generating Station is the first privately financed nuclear power plant built in the United States.
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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
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- #24 in the U.S. by capacity
- #4 in IL by capacity
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3 MW
Technology
Nuclear
Proposed Completion Date
August 13, 2013
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Source: EIA Form 923
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