NEI Energy Markets Report (March 13th - 17th)

Here's a summary of what went on in the energy markets last week:

Electricity prices mostly increased throughout the country (see pages 1 & 2). Gas prices at the Henry Hub rose $0.36 to $6.84/MMBtu (see page 4).

Nuclear capacity availability was at 85% last week. Twelve units were in refueling outages. LaSalle 1 completed a 26 day refueling outage and set a new world record for longest continuous run by a light water reactor at 739 days on February 20th. The previous record was held by Peach Bottom 3 at 708 days (see pages 2 & 3).

For the report click here (pdf). It is also located on NEI's Nuclear Statistics webpage.

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