Duke Sues Westinghouse Over Canceled EPC Nuke Contract
Duke Energy Florida said in a lawsuit filed in federal court on March 28 that the utility is entitled to a $54.1-million refund from Westinghouse Electric for "milestone payments" DEF made for turbine generators and other elements of the Levy County, Fla., nuclear station, whose engineering-procurement-construction contract was later canceled. DEF also said in the complaint it filed against Westinghouse at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina that Westinghouse claims it incurred more than $482 million in direct costs related to its work on the two-unit, 2,234-MW project and that DEF also owes Westinghouse a $30-million "agreement termination fee."The utility said it never approved the $482 million in work tied to the costs. No termination fee is due, Duke adds, because the EPC contract's can-celation was linked to failure to secure combined construction and operating licenses for the project by the Jan. 1, 2014, deadline.