2000 Minnesota Statutes

     216B.244 Nuclear plant capacity requirements. 

    A reactor unit at a nuclear power electric generating plant 
 that has an annual load capacity factor of less than 55 percent 
 for each of three consecutive calendar years must be shut down 
 and cease operating no later than 500 days after the end of the 
 third such consecutive calendar year.  For the purposes of this 
 section, "load capacity factor" means the ratio between a 
 reactor unit's average load and its peak load. 

    HIST: 1994 c 641 art 2 s 3