Located on an 1,100-acre site on Lake Erie, 65km northeast of Cleveland in North Perry, the power plant features single unit boiling water reactor that can produce electricity required to power more than one million homes.
Currently, the 1,268MW unit is operating at 22% while the power levels will vary over the next several days as part of routine testing, the company said.
The plant is scheduled to reach full capacity in the next several days.
The maintenance outage involved replacement of 280 of the 748 fuel assemblies and safety inspections on the unit’s reactor vessel, turbine and electrical generator aimed to ensure continued safe operations.
The company carried out preventative maintenance on major components, including testing of more than 130 valves, replacing several control rod blades and inspecting and cleaning cooling tower piping.
FirstEnergy also installed a new, large transformer and two new feedwater heaters.
Perry plant underwent its last refueling in 2013, and generated more than 18.6 million megawatt hours of electricity since then.
