It’s an all-too-familiar story. Southern Company subsidiary Georgia Power has again announced a delay in the long-anticipated, long-delayed, and vastly over budget opening of its two-unit Vogtle nuclear expansion project. Construction on the two-unit, 2,000-MW project, using Westinghouse AP-1000 advanced pressurized water reactors, began in 2009, with an anticipated startup of the first unit in… More More delays (yawn) at the Vogtle nuke project

Recent Ohio events have added details on how Akron-based utility giant FirstEnergy has owned Ohio’s utility regulators, the legislature, and, perhaps the state house. The utility has been accused of major bribery of the Republican Ohio House speaker, Larry Householder, in a scheme to promote and defend a $1 billion legislative bailout. More generally, critics… More Ohio events further detail depths of FirstEnergy’s intrusion into state government

The Southern Co. has begun demolishing its failed attempt to create a path to “clean coal technology” at the multi-billion-dollar Kemper County integrated gasification, combined cycle project (IGCC) in Mississippi. The Georgia-based power giant set off two explosions at the site on October 9. Here’s a video of the results of the demolition. Southern began… More Demolition at failed Southern Co. coal gasification project