The Public Service Commission staff is requesting more money to fund outside consultants to help keep track of the Plant Vogtle project.
They have asked for an unprecedented additional $3.6 million for 2019, up from the existing $1.1 million in independent contractor monitoring funds. That’s money that Georgia Power and other utilities are able to gather from ratepayers to fund independent consultants for their own projects, thanks to a 2011 law.
Vogtle is the only nuclear power plant under construction in the country, near Augusta.
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