Georgia Power's Plant Vogtle faces more delays and cost overruns

WUGA | By Jeff Dantre

Published February 17, 2023 at 6:19 AM EST

The final fuel assembly is loaded into Plant Vogtle Unit 3 in October, 2022.

Georgia Power has again delayed the projected startup for two new units at its Vogtle nuclear power plant near Augusta. The company also says that its share of the costs will rise by an additional $200 million.

Georgia Power says Unit 3 could now begin commercial operation in May or June, pushing back from the most recent deadline of the end of April. The company also now says Unit 4 will begin commercial operation sometime between this November and March 2024.

The cost was disclosed in Georgia Power’s latest earnings statement that revealed the company wrote off the $200 million in additional costs.

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Jeff has delivered morning news at WUGA Radio for more than a decade. He was among a team at CNN that won a George Foster Peabody Award in 1991 for an educational product based on the fall of the Soviet Union. He also won an Edward R. Murrow Award from Radio Television Digital News Association in 2007 for producing a series for WSB Radio on financial scams. Jeff is a graduate of the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University (MBA) and holds a BS in Business Administration from Campbell University, both in North Carolina.

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