Poor Southern Company

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Wil the ratepayers ever trust Southern Company again?

https://www.powermag.com/vogtle-nuclear-expansion-price-tag-…

An updated financial report from one of the owners of the Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion in Georgia shows the cost to build two new reactors has now topped $30 billion, more than double the original price tag expected for the project.

The Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia (MEAG), one of four groups with an ownership stake in the Vogtle expansion, on May 6 raised its total cost forecast for the project to $7.8 billion, up from $7.5 billion. The group’s updated figures, when combined with cost estimates from the other owners, push the cost to build two new 1,100-MW reactors at the site in Waynesboro, Georgia, to at least $30.3 billion.

The owners’ updated cost estimate does not include the $3.68 billion that original contractor Westinghouse paid to the project’s owners after Westinghouse declared bankruptcy, putting total spending for the expansion in the range of $34 billion.

Jaak

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Is the government loan guarantee limited, or do “We The People” bear all the cost if they end up cancelling the plants?

Steve

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Steve,

They are on the 3 yard line. They are not going to cancel. They will just keep slowly making progress while schedule slips and cost keep rising.

Jaak

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They are on the 3 yard line.

So, 97% complete?

That is farther along than the Midland plant when it was cancelled.

The plant was 85% complete, 13 years behind schedule and over 20 times the original cost estimate. Consumers Power Company, went from being the nation’s 11th largest utility company to being on the verge of bankruptcy.

http://michiganintheworld.history.lsa.umich.edu/environmenta…

Steve

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