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LaSalle County Nuclear Generating Station, located in Brookfield Township, LaSalle County, Illinois, near Marseilles, 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Ottawa, serves Chicago and Northern Illinois with electricity. The plant is owned and operated by Constellation Energy following separation from Exelon Corporation in 2022. Its Units 1 and 2 began commercial operation in October 1982, and October 1984, respectively.
Read more on WikipediaLaSalle Generating Station is a 2,340 MW nuclear power plant located in LaSalle County, Illinois. The plant, which began operating in 1984, is owned by Exelon and operated by Constellation Nuclear. It consists of two nuclear reactors and is the third-largest power plant in Illinois and the 16th-largest nuclear plant in the United States, out of 55 total.
LaSalle Generating Station operates within the PJM Interconnection, LLC balancing authority and the ReliabilityFirst Corporation (RFC) NERC region. The plant's latest annual generation was 18,873,952 MWh, achieving a capacity factor of 91.8%.
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