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- Units 3, left, and 4 and their cooling towers stand at Georgia Power Co.'s Plant Vogtle nuclear power plant, Jan. 20, 2023, in Waynesboro, Ga. Georgia's Public Service Commission voted 5-0 on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023 to approve a 6% rate increase for remaining costs that will take effect once Unit 4 begins commercial operation. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)
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Regulators approve deal to pay for Georgia Power's new nuclear reactors
By JEFF AMY - Associated Press
Tue,12/19/23-11:58AM , 633 Reads
ATLANTA (AP) — Almost 15 years of wrangling over who should pay for two new nuclear reactors in Georgia and who should be accountable for cost overruns came down to one vote Tuesday, with the Georgia Public Service Commission
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- The first of two new nuclear reactors, left, operates at Plant Vogtle, July 31, 2023, in Burke County near Waynesboro, Ga., while the second reactor, right, awaits completion. In hearings that began on Monday, Dec. 4, Georgia Power Co. is asking the state Public Service Commission to approve a further 6% increase in customer bills to pay for the second unit. (Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)
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Regulators begin hearings on how much customers should pay for Georgia nuclear reactors
By JEFF AMY - Associated Press
Mon,12/04/23-6:29PM , 430 Reads
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Power Co. is urging the state's utility regulators to approve a deal to pay for the company's new nuclear reactors as a few holdout opponents keep fighting to try to get the Public Service Commission to keep the utility from collecting any cost overruns for the two reactors at Plant Vogtle.
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- Georgia Sen. Chuck Payne, R-Dalton, foreground, looks at a map as Sen. Nikki Merritt, D-Grayson, background, speaks in opposition of Senate Bill 2EX, newly drawn congressional maps, in the Senate Chambers during a special session at the state Capitol, Nov. 19, 2021, in Atlanta. Lawyers for the state said on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023, that it wouldn't appeal a ruling ordering the maps to be redrawn, but wouldn't seek to freeze the ruling during the appeal. (Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)
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Georgia says it will appeal a judge's redistricting decision but won't seek to pause ruling for now
By JEFF AMY - Associated Press
Wed,11/01/23-3:13PM , 508 Reads
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia says it will appeal a judge's order to redraw some congressional and state legislative districts, but that it won't fight in court to pause the order for now, meaning a special session later this month to draw new
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- This Nov. 16, 2015 photograph, an overview shows a section of the Mississippi Power Co. carbon capture plant in DeKalb, Miss., that has now been demolished. A former construction manager is suing to force Mississippi Power and parent Southern Co. to repay $382 million in federal aid given to the failed clean coal plant, saying the company lied repeatedly about the plant’s cost overruns and spiraling delays to subsidy payments coming. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
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Whistleblower says utility should repay $382 million in federal aid given to failed clean coal plant
By JEFF AMY - Associated Press
Tue,10/31/23-11:05AM , 239 Reads
ATLANTA (AP) — A former employee is suing to force a Mississippi utility to repay $382 million that the federal government gave to build a failed coal-fueled power plant.
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