Constellation NY Nine Mile 2 reactor slips to 85 pct
NEW YORK, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Constellation Energy Group Inc's (CEG.N) 1,140-megawatt Unit 2 at the Nine Mile Point nuclear power station in New York slipped to 85 percent power as of early Thursday, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said in a report.
On Wednesday, the unit was operating at 95 percent.
It was not immediately known why power was reduced at the unit.
The 1,761 MW Nine Mile Point station is located in Scriba in Oswego County, about 90 miles east of Rochester, New York. There are two units at the station, the 621 MW Unit 1 and Unit 2, which entered service in 1969 and 1988, respectively.
Unit 1 continued to operate at full power.
One MW powers about 800 homes in New York.
The NRC in October 2006 renewed the plant's original 40-year operating licenses for both units for another 20 years until 2029 and 2046.
Constellation, which owns all of Unit 1, operates the station for its owners. Constellation (82 percent) and Long Island Power Authority (18 percent) own Unit 2.
Constellation, of Baltimore, owns and operates more than 8,000 MW of generating capacity, markets energy commodities in North America, and transmits and distributes electricity to 1.2 million customers and natural gas to 600,000 customers in Maryland. (Reporting by Joe Silha, editing by John Picinich)
