Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Georgia Power’s Plant Vogtle units 1-4, in March 2024. (Georgia Power) Nearly 190,000 Georgia Power customers were disconnected in ...

Georgia state leaders have written a letter to the utility co-owners of the expensive and oft-delayed Vogtle nuclear construction, stressing that the continual cost overruns are unfair to customers ...

Georgia utility watchdogs want to pull the plug on a pair of nuclear reactors being built near Augusta, dealing a fresh blow to the future of the American nuclear industry. Georgia's regulatory staff ...

Southern Company CEO Thomas Fanning on February 20 said construction of two new nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle is on track and could possibly beat the current regulatory approved startup dates for ...

Georgia’s utility commission approved a settlement Tuesday that will saddle customers with billions of dollars of cost overruns at a much-delayed nuclear plant expansion in exchange for up-front cost ...

Utility stocks rarely make news. That's because of their well-deserved reputations as being slow and steady companies. After all, electricity demand isn't very volatile, and doesn't drastically change ...

State utility regulators signed off on the latest round of construction costs for Georgia Power’s Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion project Friday, a day after parent Southern Co. won federal approval to ...

A large dome is lowered onto a nuclear containment building at the Plant Vogtle nuclear energy facility in Waynesboro, Ga., March 22, 2019 (photo by Michael Holahan for The Augusta Chronicle via AP).

Completion of hot functional testing marks major step towards commercial operations ATLANTA, May 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Georgia Power today announced the completion of hot functional testing for Unit ...