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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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“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.“
How does anyone manage to say that with a straight face without Baghdad Bob mendacity?
Part of why Nukes are costly is because they over regulate.
Like making the Death Penalty hard to employee then complaining about it.
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Note to self: start next manufacturing company in Georgia.
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And the density of its opponents is also impressive.
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If that's 1GWe, with no losses that will charge 500 Tesla semis plus 1000 cars at respective Megacharger and Supercharger charge rates of 1MW and 500KW.
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