Point Beach Nuclear Refueling Outage Extended

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Point Beach Nuclear Station (Two Rivers, Wisconsin), which is owned by NextEra Energy Resources (Juno Beach, Florida), a subsidiary of FPL Group, Incorporated (NYSE:FPL), was brought offline on October 15, when the plant's 514-megawatt (MW) unit 02 was scheduled for a refuel outage. The plant confirmed that it experienced a problem that will extend the unit's outage by two weeks. The unit is now projected for December 2, if there are no other delays.

The issue involves the auxiliary feed water heater system. Personnel stated that there were several modifications performed to the equipment, and a couple of issues were discovered with valve tie-ins and wires. Because of the numerous procedures involved with proper fitting and position parts of the equipment. Plant sources are unable to meet the scheduled date.

Point Beach station began operation in 1970. The nuclear plant has one other generating unit, which was operating at 60% early Wednesday morning November 18. The unit was reduced due to grass clogging the intake. The unit is expected to ramp back to full load on Wednesday evening. When at full load, the total generating capacity is 1,026 MW.

Next Era Energy Resources constructs and operates power plants to produce electricity. Next Era is the largest generator of wind and solar energy in North America, has approximately 17,000 MW of generating capacity in operation, and has nearly 90 facilities in operation in 25 states and Canada.

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