Georgia Power completes Plant Vogtle nuclear project

 

Georgia Power completes Plant Vogtle nuclear project

The second of two new nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle has entered full commercial operation, Georgia Power officials announced Monday.

Unit 4, which went online nine months after the completion of Unit 3 at the plant south of Augusta, can produce enough electricity to power an estimated 500,000 homes and businesses.

“The new Vogtle units are a key piece of our strategy to meet the energy needs of our customers not only tomorrow, but 20 years from now,” said Kim Greene, Georgia Power’s chairman, president and CEO. “I’m so proud of the teams who have worked tirelessly to deliver the first newly constructed nuclear units in the U.S. in more than 30 years.”

Georgia is a state that is not at high risk of running out of power. I am grateful that we are moving ahead with the true energy of the future. Nuclear is a zero-emissions energy source. There is no source of energy with a higher density.

Representatives of environmental and consumer advocacy groups complained as the costs escalated that Georgia Power and its utility partners in the project – Oglethorpe Power, MEAG Power, and Dalton Utilities – should have more aggressively pursued renewable energy as a less costly alternative to nuclear power.

Georgia Power executives countered that nuclear energy is the only zero-emission baseload energy source available today – offering high reliability around the clock. Last year, nuclear energy produced at plants Vogtle and Hatch provided more than 25% of Georgia Power’s electrical generation.

The environmentalists don’t want zero emissions, they want us in the dark. Not themselves, of course, just us.

Now, this will cost me all of an extra $9 a month. Happy to pay that for energy security.

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  1. ToryWarWriter Inactive
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    GLDIII Purveyor of Splendid Ma… (View Comment):

    Bryan G. Stephens (View Comment):

    Randy Weivoda (View Comment):

    It will be years before this comes to fruition, but Tennessee will increase the number of reactors here eventually. Molten salt, baby!

    The South will run the country, because we will have the power to do so.

    The is more truth to this tongue in cheek observation. We are witnessing the industrialization of Germany at this very moment. It takes large amounts of relativity cheap power to be an exporting nation. They gave that up the moment Russian punched their natural gas ticket. They were forced last winter (which to their good luck was mild) to immediately revert with the lowest form of coal ( lignite) just to heat their homes and keep the lights on.

    Two decades of reduced emission erased in one winter.

    They gave that up when the USA blew up Nord Stream in the single largest terrorist attack in history along with the environmental disaster that accompanied it.  

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  2. Stad Coolidge
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    Macho Grande' (View Comment):
    There’s no better baseload generation, for consistency and duration, with highly predictable results, than nuclear. 

    Nuclear for the baseload, natural gas for load following.  Piece of cake!

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  3. GLDIII Purveyor of Splendid Malpropisms Reagan
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    ToryWarWriter (View Comment):

    GLDIII Purveyor of Splendid Ma… (View Comment):

    Bryan G. Stephens (View Comment):

    Randy Weivoda (View Comment):

    It will be years before this comes to fruition, but Tennessee will increase the number of reactors here eventually. Molten salt, baby!

    The South will run the country, because we will have the power to do so.

    The is more truth to this tongue in cheek observation. We are witnessing the industrialization of Germany at this very moment. It takes large amounts of relativity cheap power to be an exporting nation. They gave that up the moment Russian punched their natural gas ticket. They were forced last winter (which to their good luck was mild) to immediately revert with the lowest form of coal ( lignite) just to heat their homes and keep the lights on.

    Two decades of reduced emission erased in one winter.

    They gave that up when the USA blew up Nord Stream in the single largest terrorist attack in history along with the environmental disaster that accompanied it.

    It is downright stupid and suicidal to rely on your geopolitical enemy for something a basic as your country’s energy needs, no matter whom you think may have destroyed that pipeline.

    The few sources I googled up on the various investigations did not seem conclusive about any of the postulated theories of “who done it”. Asserting that the USA did it and that it was ordered by the most feeble foreign policy president that has ever sat at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave seems well out of the realm of possibility.

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  4. Steven Seward Member
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    Steve C. (View Comment):

    OmegaPaladin (View Comment):

    This is awesome news.

    Give me enough energy, and all kinds of problems are solvable. You can even convert any form of carbon into liquid fuel, even hippies. If we wanted less CO2, there are ways to capture it.

    We could. But why?

    Right.  I think we need more Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere, not less.  We are in perhaps the era of lowest CO2 levels in Earth’s history.

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  5. ToryWarWriter Inactive
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    GLDIII Purveyor of Splendid Ma… (View Comment):

    ToryWarWriter (View Comment):

    GLDIII Purveyor of Splendid Ma… (View Comment):

    Bryan G. Stephens (View Comment):

    Randy Weivoda (View Comment):

    It will be years before this comes to fruition, but Tennessee will increase the number of reactors here eventually. Molten salt, baby!

    The South will run the country, because we will have the power to do so.

    The is more truth to this tongue in cheek observation. We are witnessing the industrialization of Germany at this very moment. It takes large amounts of relativity cheap power to be an exporting nation. They gave that up the moment Russian punched their natural gas ticket. They were forced last winter (which to their good luck was mild) to immediately revert with the lowest form of coal ( lignite) just to heat their homes and keep the lights on.

    Two decades of reduced emission erased in one winter.

    They gave that up when the USA blew up Nord Stream in the single largest terrorist attack in history along with the environmental disaster that accompanied it.

    It is downright stupid and suicidal to rely on your geopolitical enemy for something a basic as your country’s energy needs, no matter whom you think may have destroyed that pipeline.

    The few sources I googled up on the various investigations did not seem conclusive about any of the postulated theories of “who done it”. Asserting that the USA did it and that it was ordered by the most feeble foreign policy president that has ever sat at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave seems well out of the realm of possibility.

    No.

    Your wrong.

    Your a country is the largest supporter of terrorism in the world.  Your country launched a terror attack, on your own allies.  I pray for you.
    I fear you will reap the consequences. 

    Who else benefited?  The Russians had a near billion dollars in fuel in the pipeline when it detonated.

    You just dont want to admit your country is a terrorist country.  

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  6. Bryan G. Stephens 🚫 Banned
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    I’d rather not turn this thread into an argument about America being or not being a terrorist country. 

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  7. Randy Weivoda Moderator
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    Bryan G. Stephens (View Comment):

    I’d rather not turn this thread into an argument about America being or not being a terrorist country.

    Yes, that is rather straying from the original topic, isn’t it?

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  8. Steven Seward Member
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    ToryWarWriter (View Comment):

    No.

    Your wrong.

    Your a country is the largest supporter of terrorism in the world. Your country launched a terror attack, on your own allies. I pray for you.
    I fear you will reap the consequences.

    Who else benefited? The Russians had a near billion dollars in fuel in the pipeline when it detonated.

    You just dont want to admit your country is a terrorist country.

    Are you friends with Jerry Giordano?!

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  9. Bryan G. Stephens 🚫 Banned
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    Steven Seward (View Comment):

    ToryWarWriter (View Comment):

    No.

    Your wrong.

    Your a country is the largest supporter of terrorism in the world. Your country launched a terror attack, on your own allies. I pray for you.
    I fear you will reap the consequences.

    Who else benefited? The Russians had a near billion dollars in fuel in the pipeline when it detonated.

    You just dont want to admit your country is a terrorist country.

    Are you friends with Jerry Giordano?!

    Please stick to the OP on this. 

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  10. Bryan G. Stephens 🚫 Banned
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  11. Nanocelt TheContrarian Member
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    Fortunately this plant’s permit predated Gov Kemp’s reign. Kemp has gone all in on green energy. There is a huge solar panel farm somewhere down around Valdosta, there is a battery plant in Commerce, GA, where there have been several fatalities from battery explosions, as I understand it, and Rivian is still trying to get its plant going in Stanton Springs, outside of Rutledge in Morgan County. Struggling. Kemp went to Davos to beg the WEF types to make batteries in Georgia. Only the locals, concerned about groundwater contamination from the effluvium from battery plants, aren’t too excited. There have been delays, problems with the number of electric vans Amazon is ordering (Rivian’s majority shareholder was Amazon and the two had an original deal that Amazon would be the exclusive customer for Rivian’s vans). The plant is starting to become a bit of an embarrassment for Kemp, who, however, seems at times impervious to any possibility of embarrassment.

    He did have the gumption to sign an election reform bill, though he will be unfairly but severely criticized by the Left for doing so. From the right, the reforms are milk toast in the extreme, if you will indulge the oxymoron. 

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  12. Bryan G. Stephens 🚫 Banned
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    I’ll stick with my celebration.

     

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  13. Nanocelt TheContrarian Member
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    Bryan G. Stephens (View Comment):

    I’ll stick with my celebration.

     

    This nuclear plant in Georgia was being built by Westinghouse along with the V.C. Summer power plant in South Carolina. Westinghouse wound up declaring bankruptcy due to delays and cost over runs in the South Carolina project. Do you have insight that you could share as to why the Georgia project was completed whereas the South Carolina project never was?

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  14. Bryan G. Stephens 🚫 Banned
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    Nanocelt TheContrarian (View Comment):

    Bryan G. Stephens (View Comment):

    I’ll stick with my celebration.

    This nuclear plant in Georgia was being built by Westinghouse along with the V.C. Summer power plant in South Carolina. Westinghouse wound up declaring bankruptcy due to delays and cost over runs in the South Carolina project. Do you have insight that you could share as to why the Georgia project was completed whereas the South Carolina project never was?

    No.

    Just happy it was.

    Is South Carolina’s power part of Southern Company?

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