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https://www.brucepower.com/bruce-power-increases-output-though-innovation-and-efficiency/
Originally Posted by Bruce Power
Bruce Power will realize an additional 22 megawatts (MW) of clean, reliable and low-cost energy following innovative technology investment projects in its recently completed Unit 3 planned outage. This raises Bruce Power's overall peak site output to 6,430 MW.
Bruce Power's innovations have generated an extra 22 megawatts, which provides enough clean, reliable, low-cost electricity to power approximately 22,000 homes - equivalent to powering all the homes in Ontario cities the size of North Bay and Belleville. The additional output was achieved through technology advancements on the non-nuclear side, including a generator-stator improvement project that was integral to the uprate.
The higher output will continue to help Ontario through periods of high demand, which are ramping up with warmer summer temperatures. Bruce Power units also provide needed flexibility to the system through dynamic response capability, which is initiated when demand changes throughout the day or seasonally. This ensures that Ontarians have the electricity they need to power their lives and businesses.
This bumps up output to 6,430MW.
Now, they don't explicitly state it, but the message appears to be that this uprate was done solely on Unit 3, which means that the other units in the A-plant that could be upgraded in the same manner. This would result in an overall capacity increase to 801MW per unit, which would bump overall site output to 6,472MWe NET. If similar improvements are capable at the B plant, output could hit 6,560MW.
Originally Posted by Bruce Power
Bruce Power will realize an additional 22 megawatts (MW) of clean, reliable and low-cost energy following innovative technology investment projects in its recently completed Unit 3 planned outage. This raises Bruce Power's overall peak site output to 6,430 MW.
Bruce Power's innovations have generated an extra 22 megawatts, which provides enough clean, reliable, low-cost electricity to power approximately 22,000 homes - equivalent to powering all the homes in Ontario cities the size of North Bay and Belleville. The additional output was achieved through technology advancements on the non-nuclear side, including a generator-stator improvement project that was integral to the uprate.
The higher output will continue to help Ontario through periods of high demand, which are ramping up with warmer summer temperatures. Bruce Power units also provide needed flexibility to the system through dynamic response capability, which is initiated when demand changes throughout the day or seasonally. This ensures that Ontarians have the electricity they need to power their lives and businesses.
This bumps up output to 6,430MW.
Now, they don't explicitly state it, but the message appears to be that this uprate was done solely on Unit 3, which means that the other units in the A-plant that could be upgraded in the same manner. This would result in an overall capacity increase to 801MW per unit, which would bump overall site output to 6,472MWe NET. If similar improvements are capable at the B plant, output could hit 6,560MW.
