Byron Nuclear Generating Station is located near the small city of Byron, Illinois, 17 miles (27 km) from Rockford, Illinois. The two Westinghouse four-loop pressurized-water reactors each have an electrical output of over 1,000 MWe. Byron has 2 units capable of generating 2347 [14] net megawatts (MW) of electricity.

With iconic twin cooling towers overlooking Illinois' Rock River Valley, Byron Clean Energy Center’s two nuclear reactors can produce up to 2,347 megawatts (MW) of zero-emissions energy, enough carbon-free electricity to power the equivalent of more than 1.7 million homes.

Power plant details for Byron Generating Station, a nuclear power plant located in Byron, IL. View the monthly generation and consumption, generator details, and more for Byron Generating Station

Location: Byron, IL (17 miles SW of Rockford, IL) in Region III Operator: Constellation Energy Generation, LLC Operating License: Issued - 02/14/1985, Expires - 10/31/2044 Docket Number: 05000454. Reactor Type: Pressurized Water Reactor Licensed MWt: 3645 Reactor Vendor/Type: Westinghouse Four-Loop Containment Type: Dry, Ambient Pressure. Plant ...

2025年1月3日 · BYRON, Ill. (WIFR) - The Byron Clean Energy Center hums from rushing water inside its twin cooling towers. The nuclear power plant stands alone – surrounded by hundreds of acres of flat...

BALTIMORE (Feb. 21, 2023) — Constellation (Nasdaq: CEG), the largest producer of carbon-free energy in the U.S., said today it will invest $800 million in new equipment to increase the output of its Braidwood and Byron Generating Stations in Illinois by approximately 135 megawatts, enough to power the equivalent of 100,000 average homes around t...

2021年7月28日 · BYRON, Ill. (WTVO) — Exelon Generation, the owner and operator of the Byron nuclear energy plant, filed to decommission and close the plant in September of this year. Exelon also...

2021年10月28日 · Exelon, the owner-operator of Illinois’s six nuclear power plants, recently announced that the Byron and Dresden nuclear plants will continue operating rather than retire this fall as previously planned. The announcement came after the Illinois state legislature and governor approved a clean energy bill supporting carbon-free energy resources.

2023年10月23日 · About 90 miles west of Chicago, surrounded by agricultural fields and winding country roads, distinctive white clouds of water vapor waft into the sky from the two cooling towers of the Byron Generating Station. When visitors and employees turn into the nuclear power plant’s main drive, a giant banner greets them. It reads: “Safety Is A Skill.”

Nuclear energy is by far the largest clean-air energy source and the only one that can produce large amounts of electricity around the clock. In 2023, Byron generated 19.4 million megawatt-hours of carbon-free electricity, which is the equivalent of removing 3 million average passenger vehicles from our roads.