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About Torness
Torness is a nuclear power station near Dunbar in East Lothian. It was commissioned in 1988. It has two advanced gas-cooled reactors (AGRs), each driving its own turbine generator.
Its 1,352 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 | 1,352 MW |
| Commissioned | 1988 (DUKES 5.11) |
| Area | East Lothian |
| Location | Near Dunbar in East Lothian 55.968° N, 2.410° W |
| Owner or operator | EDF |
| Elexon lead party | EDF Energy Nuclear Generation |
| BM units | T_TORN-1 652 MW, T_TORN-2 700 MW |
| Size | The largest of the 5 nuclear power stations on GridMonkey's list |
Other nuclear power stations
- Heysham 2 1,336 MW, Lancashire
- 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 and location: 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.