Vogtle Venture Story
Ugly Chapters Legacy

Update: Georgia NEWS:

HISTORIC FIRST EVER
LEGISLATIVE PUSHBACK
ON Georgia Power:
House Resoultion 323
Senate Resolution 300

Nearly 1/2 of the Georgia Senate
has signed on to SR300 !!

See Information below

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Georgia Power's
Vogtle Venture 3&4
has already taken
$ 4,000,000,000 from customers
by special surcharge law...and
now customers may be made
to pay for billions more
in mistakes.

Georgia, USA: Vogtle Venture 3&4, now the most expensive power plants in the world, where customers are set up to pay for $9Billion in construction mistakes and delays...and...pay a profit on the mistakes and delays!

Georgia, USA, where executive management and stockholders are set to get a pass on their mistakes...and get to profit on their mistakes!

 NoPig.org and Common Sense Say NO.

You can speak YOUR VIEWS about the Venture in person at the Public Service Commission for 3 minutes. Info and address below.

UGLY FACT TO REMEMBER about the "celebrated" Vogtle Venture:  Georgia Power already took $4BILLION by surcharges ...for nothing... from customers to finance the reactors. Totally free money to Georgia Power with nothing to customers but more expensive electricity.

Also see SaveSchoolMoney.org

"I'm supposed to pay for mistakes and a profit on mistakes NO DAMN WAY!"

Georgia Power and the Georgia Public Service Commission are planning to make customers pay for construction mistakes, re-do work, mismanagement, and delays at reactor Vogtle Venture.

Go to the PSC suite early, sign on the list to speak. After years of paying for nothing, you get 3 minutes to say what you want them to decide.

First floor at 244 Washington St. SW Atlanta.

You can also call and tell them that you have already paid enough help Georgia Power build their Vogtle Venture and you don't want to pay for their mistakes and pay a profit on their mistakes:  404.656.4501

 

No company should profit on their costly mistakes, Not even Georgia Power.

 

PSC
"PRUDENCY" HEARINGS ARE AHEAD... WHAT ?

"Prudency Hearings" are where PSC Commissioners can say the mistakes are "prudent" and can make customers pay for Georgia Power's mistakes at their Venture...and make customers pay a profit to Georgia Power on the mistakes !

WHY ARE "PRUDENT" and "PRUDENCY" important to your pocketbook?

If the billions of dollars in mistakes and corrections work by Georgia Power are called "prudent" by the Georgia Public Service Commission, then CUSTOMERS WILL PAY for the mistakes and pay a profit to Georgia Power on their mistakes.

 

Common Sense & NoPig.org say:

VOGTLE MISTAKES ARE NOT PRUDENT

GEORGIA POWEWR SHOULD PAY FOR THEIR MISTAKES AND NOT PROFIT ON THEIR MISTAKES.

 

 

Remember: The typical Georgia household customer has already paid NEARLY $1,000.00 in the 7-years-too-long surcharges.

Small business customers have already paid more
 

 

 

 

VOGTLE MISTAKES
ARE NOT PRUDENT.

Can a mistake be prudent?

No, It can't.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: The first legislative PUSHBACK on Georgia Power in Georgia history... HR323 and SR300
PUSHBACK ... Protecting customers from paying for mistakes at theVogtle Venture

 

Georgia
House Resolution HR 323
and
Senate Resolution SR 300

Legislative action on the biggest financial situation for Georgians in modern Georgia history

A step to remedy the 2009 law that let Georgia Power take surcharges based on a nonexistent lower price Venture and nonexistent lower electric bills.

 

BOTH Resolutions urge the Public Service Commission to pursue actions that will protect 2,700,000 electric customers from unjustly paying for construction mistakes, delays, and corrections at Plant Vogtle reactors 3 & 4 and that will prohibit Georgia Power from Profiting on those construction mistakes, delays, and corrections.

 

HR 323      SR 300

 

SR 300 Almost 1/2 of the Georgia Senate has signed on to say NO to making customers pay for Georgia Power's mistakes!

 

Both resolutions are in committee for 2024 session and SHOULD BE HEARD and PASSED TO THE FULL HOUSE AND SENATE for an up or down vote. Stopping the resolutions in committees would be an undemocratic giveaway sop to Georgia Power and a slap in the face to 2,700,000 Georgia customers.

 

Something this pocketbook expensive for 2,700,000 Georgians needs to be heard and voted on. If not, what is the legislature for?

 

House Committee Members:

If one of these House Committee members is YOUR REPRESENTATIVE,

LET THEM KNOW THAT
YOU WANT TO NOT PAY
 FOR MISTAKES AT VOGTLE.

Customer money has been taken by surcharge 7 years longer than Georgia Power proposed to the 2009 legislature. Venture was claimed to be done by April, 2017.

So now 7 years of unapproved, free (snookered?) money.

NCCR The Surcharge you are paying 7 extra years... Your money monthly free to Georgia Power!

Today, now, as Vogtle Venture nears on-line, are you one of 2,700,000 Georgia Power customers in 155 counties being set-up to pay for mistakes, and pay a profit on mistakes?

 

Do you have a small business that is being set up to pay for someone else's mistakes?

 

MISTAKES CAN'T BE PRUDENT

 

 NOTE: The present Georgia Public Service Commission ABSOLUTELY HAS NOT and WILL NOT PROTECT customers.

 

 

"Was it Bait-and-Switch"
in 2009 ?

Vogtle 3&4 costs are $Billions over the original 2009 $14Billion and done in April 2017 bait.

 

Georgia PSC Commissioners have consistently ignored the PSC professional staff and have NEVER PROTECTED Georgians from paying for the Vogtle Venture.  They can't be trusted.

They've already approved $7.3 billion in construction costs.  Already more than the 2009 bait and switch proposal.

 

 

No Overrun Profits In Georgia

 

 

HOW DID CUSTOMERS GET SET UP TO FINANCE THE VENTURE?

In 2009 Georgia Power got an unusual special utility law letting them take money from customers by surcharges to finance construction of their 14 billion dollar venture. They proposed that lower price electricity would be a return for the (now billlions) money taken from customers. (Note: Surcharges were unfairly distributed by the PSC in that the very largest industrial customers got a big pass on paying)

 

REMEMBER:  In 2009 Georgia Power got their free finance money CWIP surcharge law based on a $14Billion plant and proposed future lower cost electricity. NOW: After the typical household paying out around $1000.00 in surcharges. Lower cost electricity benefit IS NOT EVER HAPPENING. 

Here are the folks who have been forced to finance without compensation, poor Georgia Power's Vogtle Venture...
ARE YOU HERE?:

 

 

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REMEDY ?

 

The Georgia Legislature can recognize the unfairness and remedy the situation by protecting 2.7 million customers from paying for Georgia Power's costs above their original 6.1 billion ownership proposed in the deal to get free (CWIP) money.

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Background

 

References, a few of many

 

Studies Show
Management Mess
Financial Fiasco and Filch:

 

March 2023:  News about HR 323 and SR 300 in Georgia : 
Senate resolution would urge protection for ratepayers from Vogtle overrun. In the Augusta Chronicle and Savannah Morning News.

 

February 2023: Plant Vogtle is almost complete -time to celebrate? Guest Column in The Saporta Report.

 

January 2022:  Stating that Georgia Power has misled the Public Service Commission and the PSC Staff, The Institute for Energy Economics and
Financial Analysis has the most recent damning analysis.

 

December 2021: An Eye-Opening must-read report on possibly misleading cost and time estimates at the Georgia Public Service Commission.  Atlanta Journal Constitution

 

December 2021:  A Stunning Comprehensive Report, Ratepayer Robbery, by the Georgia Conservation
Voters Education Fund on the many serious problems, malfeasance, missteps, corporate greed, and incompetence in the Vogtle situation.

 

Clark Howard summary about the surcharge.
From October 2018. This is an excellent overview:
https://www.gcvoters.org/blog
/2018/10/15/
youre-paying-for-plant-vogtle
-even-though-
youre-years-away-
from-benefiting-from-it/

 

Pam Wright's article: Sinking Into the Vogtle Vortex. Written several years ago, has history summary and information on surcharge impact on average customers:
https://features.weather.com/us-
climate-change/georgia/

 

Early news article about surcharge taking homeowner's money:
https://savannahnow.com/news/
2017-04-08
/troubled-nuclear-
plant-costs-rising-savannah-residents

 

In 2017, School officials reported surcharge taking from schools.  Years later, school tax money is still being misused to finance a new nuclear reactor:
https://savannahnow.com/
news/2017-06-11/
millions-collected-schools-
taxpayers-vogtle-construction

 

Nuclear Watch South. Extensive background and data on Plant Vogtle.
https://www.nonukesyall.org/
Vogtle.html

 

What ratepayers should know about the Plant Vogtle expansion.  January 6. Georgia Public Broadcasting.
http://www.gpb.org/
news/2022/01/06/what-ratepayers-should
-know-about-the-plant-vogtle-expansion

 

Nuclear Train Wreck. Big Vogtle plant part from Korea slides into the mud, nearly slides into the swamp. 2013 item.
https://www.connectsavannah.com/
savannah/
nuclearptrainpwreck/content?
oid=2175647

 

PSC Commissioners ignored their own professional staff's recommendation to cut losses. Commissioners listened to the (what we know now to be wrong) stories Georgia Power was telling about how their Venture was almost ready to be complete... year after year... Here is the AJC front page from December 2017 when billions in costs and years of surcharges could have been stopped.

 

Dec 16 2021 in testimony at the Public Service Commission: 

• Many issues with wiring in the main control room.

• Scaffolding is everywhere, it is hard to get around to do work.

• There are 25,000 inspection reports to complete.

• 600 cables have been wrongly wired and need re-do.

 

Vogtle monitors see more delays, extra $1B for nuclear plant

SUMMARY:  ATLANTA (AP) — ... Testimony filed Wednesday with the Georgia Public Service Commission by engineer Don Grace and others predict that the third reactor at Plant Vogtle near Augusta won’t meet the most recent range of July 2022 to September 2022 set by Georgia Power Co. ... problems are “largely attributable” to electrical wiring problems ... “We have testified in many prior (proceedings) that the schedules provided by the company are not achievable.”... Grace said company estimates have “repeatedly been demonstrated to be unrealistic and unreliable.” ... the company will need longer than the four months that it projects to load nuclear fuel and complete testing, ... the company is submitting many fewer notices to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission than planned showing work has been completed and tested. ... Grace also warned that construction performance on Vogtle’s fourth nuclear reactor is not improving, ... Georgia Power said for years that Unit 3 would be in commercial operation by November 2021, but has pushed back that deadline three times since May.

 

More Vogtle Wire Woes Could Add to Delay:

At the November 15 PSC hearing, the company said there were approximately 600 "electrical" problems to be fixed.

Most of the problems were spacing issues that shouldn't have happened if the work crews had an engineering and quality control supervisor.
Are we to pay for this and pay a profit on costs of their mistakes?

 

 

WSB News December, 2021

 

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Call or e-mail your Representative and Senator at the Georgia Legislature. Let them know you WANT THE COMPANY OWNERS TO PAY FOR THEIR MISTAKES, NOT YOU, AND ABSOLUTELY NO PROFIT ON COST OVERRUNS !

CONGRATULATIONS
Georgia Power customers are set up
by the PSC and Georgia Power to pay for
the most expensive
power plant in the world
AND PAY PROFITS ON $BILLIONS
IN MISTAKES AND RE-DO WORK.

NoPig.org  

As soon as the surcharges came in, Georgia Power profits jumped up and stayed up while customers received NOTHING

Georgia Power saying it will be done in 2016...
2017...
2018...
2019...
2020...
2021...
2022...
2023...While the Surcharges run overtime and take billions more from customers than proposed...

No Overrun Profit In Georgia

The most expensive electric plant in the world.

Georgia Power's hands taking money from elderly, school, and all other customers by surcharges.
The $4Billion taken is free to Georgia Power. Customers receive No stocks, No bonds, No payback...  YES Customers do get HIGHER ELECTRIC BILLS.