Dresden Generating Station

OperatingNuclear

Ranked #4 of 6 Nuclear plants in IL#24 of 57 nationally

2018.6 MW Nuclear operating in Grundy, IL — PJM Interconnection, LLC

EIAGEMWD

2,018.6 MW

Nameplate Capacity

Generators

units

Nuclear

Technology

1970

Operating Since

Location

Coordinates

41.3900, -88.2700

County

Grundy, IL

Nearby Plants

GE-Hitachi Solar - Morris, IL
Solar0.9 MW · 1.0 km
CPV Three Rivers Energy Center
Natural Gas1300 MW · 2.2 km
Morris Cogeneration LLC
Natural Gas218.8 MW · 5.6 km

Ownership & Operator

Owner data does not fully agree across sources.

EIA typically reports the operating utility, while GEM resolves to the financial owner or parent corporation. Both can be correct.

Field	EIA	GEM	Wikidata
Operator	Constellation Nuclear	Exelon Generation	Exelon
Owner(s)	Constellation Nuclear	Exelon	—
Status	Operating	operating	—

Ownership Chain

About

Dresden Generating Station is the first privately financed nuclear power plant built in the United States. Dresden 1 was activated in 1960 and retired in 1978. Operating since 1970 are Dresden units 2 and 3, two General Electric BWR-3 boiling water reactors. Dresden Station is located on a 953-acre (386 ha) site in Grundy County, Illinois near the city of Morris. It is at the head of the Illinois River, where the Des Plaines River and Kankakee River meet. It is immediately northeast of the Morris Operation—the only de facto high-level radioactive waste storage site in the United States. It serves Chicago and the northern quarter of the state of Illinois, capable of producing 867 megawatts of electricity from each of its two reactors, enough to power over one million average American homes.

Read more on Wikipedia

Dresden Generating Station is a 2,018.6 MW nuclear power plant located in Grundy County, Illinois. The plant began operating in 1970 and is owned by Exelon, with Constellation Nuclear as the operator. It consists of two nuclear reactors and is the fourth-largest power plant in Illinois and the 22nd-largest nuclear plant in the United States, based on capacity.

Dresden Generating Station operates within the PJM Interconnection, LLC balancing authority and the RFC NERC region. The plant's latest annual generation was 15,205,342 MWh, achieving a capacity factor of 86.0%.

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