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About Heysham 2
Heysham 2 is a nuclear power station at Heysham in Lancashire. It was commissioned in 1988. It has two advanced gas-cooled reactors (AGRs), each driving its own turbine generator.
Its 1,336 MW of registered generating capacity is spread across 2 balancing mechanism units. Every half hour each unit tells the grid how much it will generate (its physical notification): that is the live figure above, and GridMonkey records it every half hour for the chart.
Nuclear stations run flat out for months at a time, so their output changes little from hour to hour, until a reactor stops for refuelling or repairs.
| Type | Nuclear |
|---|---|
| Registered capacity | 1,336 MW |
| Commissioned | 1988 (DUKES 5.11) |
| Area | Lancashire |
| Location | At Heysham in Lancashire 54.029° N, 2.916° W |
| Owner or operator | EDF |
| Elexon lead party | EDF Energy Nuclear Generation |
| BM units | T_HEYM27 660 MW, T_HEYM28 676 MW |
| Size | 2nd largest of the 5 nuclear power stations on GridMonkey's list |
Other nuclear power stations
- Torness 1,352 MW, East Lothian
- Sizewell B 1,287 MW, Suffolk
- Hartlepool 1,240 MW, County Durham
- Heysham 1 1,195 MW, Lancashire
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Contains BMRS data © Elexon Limited copyright and database right 2026 (licence). Station names, areas and owners or operators come from GridMonkey's own table, matched to the units in Elexon's register; a station's output here is its physical notification, not metered generation. Year commissioned: Power stations in the United Kingdom (DUKES 5.11) (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, May 2026). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Map position: Wikipedia.