The other owners of Vogtle are trying to shift costs onto Georgia Power. MEAG has contracts to sell electricity from Vogtle to the city-owned utility in Jacksonville, Florida, and to some electric cooperatives and city utilities in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle.
The Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia owns 22.7% on behalf of 49 city-owned utilities, while the city of Dalton's utility owns 1.6%. owns 30% on behalf of 38 power cooperatives. Georgia Power owns 45.7% of the two reactors, while Oglethorpe Power Corp. Its costs and delays could deter other utilities from building such plants, even though they generate electricity without releasing climate-changing carbon emissions. Vogtle is the only nuclear plant under construction in the United States. The cost of the third and fourth reactors has climbed from an original estimate of $14 billion to more than $30 billion. The Georgia Public Service Commission approved the new reactors in 2012, and the third reactor was supposed to start generating power in 2016.
Operators will then start generating electricity and link the plant to the transmission grid, with the reactor planned to reach commercial operation by the end of March. "These units are important to building the future of energy and will serve as clean, emission-free sources of energy for Georgians for the next 60 to 80 years."Īfter the 90 tons (82 metric tonnes) of uranium oxide is loaded by a crane into the reactor, operating company Southern Nuclear will test whether the plant's cooling and steam supply system work while fuel is inside the reactor at the super-high temperatures and pressures created by splitting atoms. as we approach bringing online the first new nuclear unit to be built in the country in over 30 years," Womack said. "We're making history here in Georgia and the U.S.
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