Cofrentes nuclear power plant

Cofrentes nuclear power plant in context

By gross operating capacity Cofrentes nuclear power plant is the 3rd largest of 5 operating nuclear sites in Spain, holding 15% of the country's operating capacity, and ranks 139th of 172 worldwide.

Its operating unit started up in 1985; the unit is 41.0 years old, the same as the median in Spain.

The one unit with both construction and grid dates on record took 9.1 years from construction start to grid connection; the median across all reactors connected in the 1980s is 7.3 years.

The nearest other tracked nuclear sites are Trillo nuclear power plant (213 km), Vandellos nuclear power plant (253 km) and Ascó nuclear power plant (260 km).

The current net rating of the unit differs from its design net capacity by +13.3% (939 MW at design, 1,064 MW now).

Build time by unit

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How these are worked out: ranks use gross operating capacity; ages count from the start-up year on record, as on the age page; build times run from construction start to grid connection, as on the build-times page; ratings are the tracker's net and design net capacity, as on the uprates page. Distances are straight-line between exact positions, so a site with only an approximate position gets none. A unit missing a date or a rating is left out of the figure that needs it.