WORLD NUCLEAR ENERGY

Annual Generation

Make electrical capacity, the year and an assumed capacity factor explicit.

Electrical capacity and period

Hypothetical starting values. Capacity factor is your assumption; it is not a forecast for a reactor design.

The arithmetic

Annual MWh = net electrical MW per unit × units × days × 24 × capacity factor ÷ 100. GWh = MWh ÷ 1,000. TWh = MWh ÷ 1,000,000. The calculation has no separate availability factor.

This is an annual electrical energy illustration. It does not model commissioning, dispatch, transmission losses, hourly reliability or project performance. Zero units, capacity or capacity factor gives zero energy.

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