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Residential customers of Georgia’s largest electrical utility could see their bills rise another $9 a month to pay for a new nuclear power plant

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ATLANTA (AP) — Residential customers of Georgia’s largest electrical utility could see their bills rise $9 more a month to pay for a new nuclear power plant under a deal announced Wednesday. Georgia Power Co. said customers would pay $7.56 billion more for Plant Vogtle construction costs under the agreement with utility regulatory staff. The […]. Local Mississippi breaking news and weather from CBS 12 News WJTV, your Jackson, MS news leader.

Georgia Power and the Southern Environmental Law Center have settled on how much the company’s Plant Vogtle’s cost to customers will total out to, according to an announcement from the Public Service Commission.

Residential customers of Georgia's largest electrical utility could see their bills rise $9 more a month to pay for a new nuclear power plant under a deal announced Wednesday. Georgia Power Co. said customers would pay $7.56 billion more for Plant Vogtle construction costs under the agreement with utility regulatory staff. The Georgia Public Service Commission's five elected commissioners must approve any deal, but such agreements are typically persuasive.

Georgia Power announced that the third nuclear reactor at its Plant Vogtle near Augusta had begun commercial operation.

I’m unsure if most Georgians recognized just what a milestone was — finally — achieved this past week.

I did find, in the reporting of the finally-in-operation Vogtle nuclear power plant, a fine example of the nuclear lobby's brilliant, but twisted and irrational, logic.  Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office director, Jigar Shah, was "optimistic and thinks Vogtle is a nuclear turning point, with a pivot toward smaller-scale projects that will be easier and…

/PRNewswire/ -- Bechtel, the engineering, procurement, and construction company brought in to complete construction on new Units 3 and 4 at the Vogtle nuclear...

As the third quarter and second half kick off, Goldman Sachs is adding a new utility stock to its high-conviction stock list.