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Stop making us pay for Georgia Power’s Plant Vogtle failures

The Georgia Public Service Commission is about to approve Georgia Power’s gigantic rate hike to cover their Plant Vogtle failures.  This isn’t surprising considering how little the PSC has done to protect consumers. In 2011, the PSC commissioners’ failure to mandate that Georgia Power share in the financial risk on Vogtle, a project they proposed, has left consumers to foot the bill. The PSC should’ve been suspicious of a company selling a “great idea” without

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Plant Vogtle expansion receives support from Georgia’s energy regulators

Georgia regulators are doubling down on their support for the Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion project, signalling their support in a meeting earlier this week. The project’s main contractor — Westinghouse Electric, a subsidiary of Japanese-based Toshiba Corporation — declared bankruptcy earlier this year causing uncertainty for both Plant Vogtle and another nuclear reactor project in South Carolina. Both projects represented the first new nuclear reactors being built in this country in more than two decades.