CORRECTING
and REPLACINGCalvert Cliffs Nuclear Plant Unit 2
Sets World Record For Operating Non-Stop for 692 Days, Begins Refueling Outage
Achievement Mirrors
Constellation Energy's 2008 Nuclear Performance, Including Generating a
Record 32 Million Megawatt Hours of Electricity
BALTIMORE, Feb 23,
2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Headline of release should read: Calvert Cliffs
Nuclear Plant Unit 2 Sets World Record For Operating Non-Stop for 692 Days...
(sted Calvert Cliffs
Nuclear Plant Unit 2 Sets World Record For Operating Non-Stop for 693
Days...). First graph, first sentence of release should read: ...after
completing a record-breaking, continuous run of 692 days, five hours and 42
minutes. (sted ...after
completing a record-breaking, 693-day continuous run.)
The corrected release
reads:
CALVERT CLIFFS NUCLEAR
PLANT UNIT 2 SETS WORLD RECORD FOR OPERATING NON-STOP FOR 692 DAYS, BEGINS
REFUELING OUTAGE
Achievement Mirrors
Constellation Energy's 2008 Nuclear Performance, Including Generating a
Record 32 Million Megawatt Hours of Electricity
Constellation Energy
(NYSE: CEG) today announced that its Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Plant Unit 2,
located in Lusby, Md., was taken out of service Sunday for a scheduled
refueling outage, after completing a record-breaking, continuous run of 692
days, five hours and 42 minutes. Unit 2 set a world record for continuous
generation by a pressurized water nuclear reactor, topping the previous
689-day record held by Three Mile Island Unit 1.
"This phenomenal
achievement is a tribute to Calvert Cliffs' employees and their commitment to
safe and reliable operation of our nuclear plants," said Brew Barron,
executive vice president, Constellation Energy, and chief nuclear officer of
Constellation Energy subsidiary Constellation Energy Nuclear Group (CENG). "It
is also a reflection of the superlative performance by our entire fleet of
nuclear plants in 2008."
Unit 2 has operated
continuously since its last refueling outage two years ago, providing enough
electricity to serve more than 1 million households and businesses in the
region.
"This level of
achievement would not be possible without our employees' unwavering
commitment to safety, human performance and equipment reliability," said
Jim Spina, site vice president, Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant.
The previous Calvert
Cliffs record for a continuous run was 489 days in March 2004.
Calvert Cliffs is a
two-unit, 1,735-megawatt facility. Cliff Cliffs Unit 1 remains at 100 percent
power. In addition to Calvert Cliffs, Constellation Energy operates two other
nuclear power plant sites - Nine Mile Point in Scriba, N.Y., and R.E. Ginna
near Rochester, N.Y. Together, the reactors have a generating capacity of
3,869 megawatts, enough to serve approximately 2.6 million households.
In 2008, CENG reactors
generated a record 32 million megawatt hours of carbon-free electricity and
recorded an impressive 94.7 percent capacity factor. Nine Mile Point Unit 1
contributed by operating continuously for 519 days through Oct. 23.
CENG's two reactors
that did not have refueling outages in 2008 operated virtually full time. Calvert
Cliffs Unit 2 had a 99.3 percent capacity factor, while Nine Mile Point 1
operated at 98.2 percent capacity. Sites that completed refueling outages in
2008 also had stellar performance, including Calvert Cliffs Unit 1, which was
rated first the nation with a 19.6-day outage. Among the 42 spring refueling
outages in 2008 throughout the U.S., R.E. Ginna was third nationally with 20
days, and Nine Mile Point 2 was 11th, with a 27-day outage.
About Constellation
Energy
Constellation Energy (www.constellation.com) is a leading supplier of energy products and services to wholesale
and retail electric and natural gas customers. It owns a diversified fleet of
generating units located throughout the United States, totaling approximately
9,000 megawatts of generating capacity, and is among the leaders pursuing the
development of new nuclear plants in the United States. The company delivers
electricity and natural gas through the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company
(BGE), its regulated utility in Central Maryland. A FORTUNE 500 company
headquartered in Baltimore, Constellation Energy had revenues of $19.8
billion in 2008.
SOURCE: Constellation Energy
Constellation Energy
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