Work on the nuclear power expansion at Plant Vogtle isn’t keeping up with a timeline set by owners of the project. At a hearing on Tuesday, officials with Georgia Power and its sister company Southern Nuclear said they’re still optimistic, though, that the project will be done on time.
Both of the new reactors at the nuclear power plant near Augusta were supposed to be up and running by now. Georgia Power and state regulators agreed to a new deadline, to have Unit 3 in operation in November 2021, and Unit 4 in November 2022. To help accomplish that goal, Georgia Power set a more ambitious timeline to have the reactors done by May of those years.
That “aggressive” timeline, as Georgia Powers calls it, has slipped by about two months for Unit 3, officials told the Public Service Commission. They said they think they can still meet the May 2021 deadline.
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