FILE - Unit 3’s reactor and cooling tower stand at Georgia Power Co.'s Plant Vogtle nuclear power plant on Jan. 20, 2023, in Waynesboro, Ga. Georgia Power declared on Monday that Plant Vogtle Unit 3 ...

Georgia Power’s Plant Vogtle units 1-4, in March 2024. Nearly 190,000 Georgia Power customers were disconnected in 2024 due to the inability to pay bills after a record-high rate increases were ...

WAYNESBORO — At the crack of dawn on Monday, dignitaries and power company executives gathered on a rural Burke County hilltop overlooking Plant Vogtle for a celebration that was years delayed. On a ...

On July 31, roughly seven years later than expected, utility Georgia Power and contractor Bechtel celebrated bringing into commercial operation the first new nuclear plant in the U.S. in more than 30 ...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - On the week of several Plant Vogtle celebration events, six consumer protection groups published a 40-page report compiled of data and analysis of why they feel the ...

The deal caps the recovery costs for Plant Vogtle’s Units 3 and 4 — the “first newly constructed nuclear units” built in the country in more than three decades — at more than $7.5 billion. According ...

Georgia state leaders have written a letter to the utility co-owners of the expensive and oft-delayed Vogtle nuclear construction, stressing that the continual cost overruns are unfair to customers ...

Located in Georgia, the biggest nuclear power plant in the U.S. generates 4.8 gigawatts of electricity and is part of a ...

The $35 billion project’s completion — despite delays and cost overruns — is boosting already surging support for nuclear energy in Congress. Lawmakers from Georgia are still all in on nuclear energy, ...

The debate surrounding Georgia Power's Plant Vogtle expansion raged on during the latest installment of state regulators considering the controversial nuclear expansion project, which has doubled in ...

The first of the two new nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle near Augusta has cleared one of its final testing hurdles, a witness for the Georgia Public Service Commission’s (PSC) staff testified ...