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		<title>UPDATE: Georgia’s Vogtle nuclear expansion hit with new delays, costs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2022 20:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tamar Hallerman 2/17/2022    Southern Company, the electric utility overseeing the beleaguered Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion near Augusta, said Thursday that the project is being delayed once again as costs continue to climb. That raises the possibility the company’s roughly 2.6 million Georgia Power customers, already on the hook for billions of dollars, will pay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Georgia nuclear project’s big finish went so wrong</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2022 17:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Matt Kempner ajc.com 12/31/21: Early in 2021, crews at Georgia Power’s nuclear expansion site at Plant Vogtle were struggling to find all the leaks in a pool built to hold spent, highly radioactive fuel. They added air pressure under the floor of the water-filled pool, hoping air bubbles would pinpoint flawed welds. It didn’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia Watch challenges Plant Vogtle decision</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2018 18:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by J. Scott Truby ATLANTA 3/8/18: Consumer group Georgia Watch filed a legal challenge to the December decision by the Georgia Public Service Commission to allow Georgia Power and partners to complete two unfinished nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle in east Georgia. In a petition filed in Fulton County Superior Court, Georgia Watch alleges the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Utility lending bill runs into opposition</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2018 19:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jill Nolan DALTON 2/23/18: A proposal to let local governments borrow money for electric utility projects without a public vote has run into resistance at the state Capitol. The statewide bill is essentially tailored for Dalton Utilities, which owns 1.6 percent of the costly Plant Vogtle expansion project. The utility wants state lawmakers to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ga. panel votes to scrap project financing law with Vogtle carve-out</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2018 19:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Kristi Swartz ATLANTA 2/16/18 — A Georgia Senate panel swiftly passed a bill that ends a controversial financing law for nuclear power plants but leaves Georgia Power Co.&#8217;s Plant Vogtle expansion project alone. The measure is a pared-down version of a bill (S.B. 355) that would limit how much Georgia Power could profit from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill limiting Georgia Power profits would not apply to Vogtle delays</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2018 19:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Anastaciah Ondieki ATLANTA 2/16/18: A newly proposed Senate Bill that would have limited charges on Georgia Power customer bills for the Vogtle nuclear expansion project has been amended, to apply only to future nuclear projects. The amended version of Senate Bill 355, which received unanimous support from members of the Regulated Industries and Utilities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia Power profits off Plant Vogtle construction despite cost overruns, delays, and contractor bankruptcy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2017 21:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Anne Maxwell WAYNESBORO, Ga. 5/8/17: The construction of two nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle is years behind schedule and billions over budget. Last month, the contractor, Westinghouse Electric, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Plant Vogtle employees hundreds of people in Burke County and the temporary contract with Westinghouse expires Friday, which means the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Every option&#8217; being looked at for Plant Vogtle after contractor’s bankruptcy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2017 22:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Russell Grantham ATLANTA 3/30/17: A day after its key contractor filed bankruptcy, Georgia Power said Thursday it is looking at all options for what to do with its unfinished Plant Vogtle nuclear project. “Every option is on the table,” Georgia Power attorney Kevin Green told members of the Georgia Public Service Commission, which regulates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HB 931 seeks end to ratepayer subsidy of nuclear construction in Georgia</title>
		<link>https://stopcwip.com/hb-931-seeks-end-to-ratepayer-subsidy-of-nuclear-construction-in-georgia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2016 17:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Gloria Tatum (APN) ATLANTA 2/17/16 — A pro-consumer bill, HB 931, co-sponsored by State Rep. Karla Drenner (D-Avondale), calls for an end to the Nuclear Construction Cost Recovery (NCCR) surcharge on Georgia Power electric bills after March 2017. NCCR is a statewide surcharge that all Georgia Power residential and small business electricity customers pay [...]]]></description>
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