Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2022 05:08:00 +0000
Working with and around electrical distribution system poles is dangerous. Georgia Power has taken a proactive approach to reducing the risk, keeping safety first in its operations. In the electric utility
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 20:00:05 +0000
In its third quarter 2022 earnings call presentation, Southern Company reduced its “Total project capital cost forecast” for Vogtle Units 3 and 4 to $10.383 billion from $10.453 billion, which is what it had reported in the company’s second quarter 2022 earnings call presentation. The company’s cost estimate reduction doesn’t mean that total project costs […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2022 16:38:15 +0000
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has given Southern Nuclear Operating Company (SNC) the green light to load fuel and begin the operation of an AP1000 nuclear reactor at Vogtle 3. The authorization makes Vogtle 3 the first reactor in the nation to reach the milestone as part of the regulator’s Part 52 combined license process. […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 04:18:32 +0000
Atlanta-based energy giant Southern Co. has rapidly evolved to keep in step with the evolution of power. As part of its corporate growth, the company has notably pioneered technologies that have reshaped
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Read moreCredit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2022 01:36:15 +0000
Georgia Public Service Commission votes unanimously to establish clean energy working group, but rejects expansion of popular rooftop solar program
Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2022 15:47:20 +0000
Georgia Power will harvest 9 million tons of coal ash landfilled at its 3.4-GW Plant Bowen station in Bartow County, Georgia, and beneficially use it in concrete for major regional construction projects. The project, announced on June 29, will be the “ single largest beneficial use project of its kind in the U.S., and the largest […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 19:50:51 +0000
A demonstration project at Georgia Power’s 2.5-GW natural gas–fired Plant McDonough-Atkinson facility has validated a natural gas fuel blend with 20% hydrogen by volume on one of its six Mitsubishi Power advanced-class gas turbines. The test, one of the largest of its kind to date, provided an approximately 7% reduction in carbon emissions compared to […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 09 May 2022 16:53:56 +0000
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 […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 22:53:01 +0000
Southern Co. CEO Tom Fanning said the group continues to stick to its most-recent timeline for startup of the two-unit expansion of the Vogtle nuclear plant in Georgia, telling participants in the company’s first-quarter 2022 earnings call that construction is pacing well, with fuel load for Unit 3 expected later this year. “Importantly, the […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2022 15:21:05 +0000
Georgia Power plans to shutter most of its coal fleet by 2028 and completely exit coal-fired power by 2035, according to the utility’s latest integrated resource plan (IRP) filed with state regulators on Jan. 31. The Southern Co. subsidiary on Monday said it would make more investments in natural gas-fired generation, along with renewable energy, […]
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