$6.024 billion (2007 USD)[3] ($8.53 billion in 2023 dollars[4])
Owner(s)
Energy Harbor Corp. (Formerly FirstEnergy Solutions Corp.)
Operator(s)
Energy Harbor Corp. (Formerly FirstEnergy Solutions Corp.)
Nuclear power station
Reactor type
BWR
Reactor supplier
General Electric
Cooling towers
2 × Natural Draft (one in use)
Cooling source
Lake Erie
Thermal capacity
1 × 3758 MWth
Power generation
Units operational
1 × 1256 MW
Make and model
BWR-6 (Mark 3)
Units cancelled
1 × 1205 MW
Nameplate capacity
1256 MW
Capacity factor
89.18% (2017) 80.80% (lifetime)
Annual net output
9703 GWh (2021)
External links
Website
Perry
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700+ employees[1]
Perry as seen from Headlands Park, Ohio
The Perry Nuclear Power Plant is located on a 1,100 acres (450 ha) site on Lake Erie, 40 miles (64 km) northeast of Cleveland in North Perry, Ohio, US. The nuclear power plant is owned and operated by FirstEnergy-subsidiary Energy Harbor Corp. (Formerly FirstEnergy Solutions Corp.).
The reactor is a General Electric BWR-6 boiling water reactor design, with a Mark III containment design. The original core power level of 3,579 megawatts thermal was increased to 3,758 megawatts thermal in 2000, making Perry one of the largest BWRs in the United States.
Perry was expected to close in 2021 as it is no longer profitable to run when competing against natural gas plants.[5] To avert this, Ohio House Bill 6 was signed into law in July 2019 which added a fee to residents' utility bills that funded subsidies of $150 million per year to Perry and the Davis–Besse nuclear plant to keep both plants operational.[6][7] However, the bill was alleged to be part of the Ohio nuclear bribery scandal revealed by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) in July 2020.[8][7]
^ abcCass, Andrew (November 17, 2017). "Perry Nuclear Power Plant celebrates 30 years of commercial operation". The News-Herald. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
^"PRIS - Reactor Details". www.iaea.org. International Atomic Energy Agency. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
^"EIA - State Nuclear Profiles". www.eia.gov. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
^Johnston, Louis; Williamson, Samuel H. (2023). "What Was the U.S. GDP Then?". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved November 30, 2023. United States Gross Domestic Product deflator figures follow the MeasuringWorth series.
^Funk, John (March 28, 2018). "FirstEnergy Solutions will close its nuclear power plants, but is silent on bankruptcy restructuring". The Plain Dealer. Cleveland, Ohio. Retrieved March 29, 2018. During months of hearings, the company argued that its uncompetitive old coal and nuclear plants would become competitive once the price of natural gas increased. And at that point, customers would see credits on their monthly bills, they argued. Opponents cited federal predictions that natural gas would stay cheap for decades and customers would just keep on paying higher rates.
^Pelzer, Jeremy (July 23, 2019). "Nuclear bailout bill passes Ohio legislature, signed by Gov. Mike DeWine". The Plain Dealer. Retrieved July 25, 2019.
^ ab Wamsley, Laura (2020-07-21). "Ohio House Speaker Arrested In Connection With $60 Million Bribery Scheme". NPR. Retrieved 2020-07-21. Last year's nuclear bailout law tacked on a charge to residents' power bills, sending $150 million a year to the nuclear power plants. They are owned by the company Energy Harbor, which was previously known as FirstEnergy Solutions.
^U.S. v. Larry Householder, Jeffery Longstreth, Neil Clark, Matthew Borges, Juan Cespedes, and Generation Now (S.D. Ohio July 16, 2020), Text.
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