Rejecting Georgia Power’s key criteria for continuing construction of its problem-plagued Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion, staff analysts with the Georgia Public Service Commission are strongly recommending that the state reject the utility’s request to pass along virtually all remaining construction and financing costs to ratepayers.
Instead, PSC staffers argued that many costs have resulted from poor project management. The PSC staff recommended that roughly $3.9 billion less than Georgia Power previously requested should be classified as “reasonable,” and thus passed along to ratepayers.