“We continue to add resources on site for this work, and we have a plan for transitioning electrical field engineers from Unit 3 as we continue our focus on increasing productivity and ensuring first quality first times to support the upcoming testing and long-term operations.”įanning said workers “will be focusing on testing and surveillance, demobilization, finishing work and documentation” over the next few weeks. “We’re excited about the progress that we’ve seen at the site over the last several months and look forward to the transition of Unit 3 from construction to operations in the weeks ahead,” said Tom Fanning, Southern Co.’s CEO, during the presentation. The reactors are the only large-scale nuclear power units under construction in the U.S. on Thursday said it now expects Unit 3 to enter service in the first quarter of next year, with Unit 4 following in fourth quarter of 2023. Myriad issues have contributed to delays for the project, including the bankruptcy of Westinghouse and the coronavirus pandemic. The project, when initially approved in 2009, was expected to cost about $14 billion, with the new reactors coming online in 20. The Vogtle expansion is adding two 1,117-MW Westinghouse AP1000 reactors to two existing units at the site in Waynesboro, Georgia. The construction of Units 3 and 4 at Vogtle is years behind schedule, and the project’s price tag has ballooned to more than $30 billion, according to energy industry analysts. Georgia Power, the largest of four utilities owned by Southern Co., owns 45.7% of the project. Southern, during an investor presentation of the company’s second-quarter financial results, said Georgia Power’s share of capital costs for the project has risen by $52 million, to about $10.5 billion in total. on July 28 increased its cost estimate for Georgia Power’s share of the two-unit expansion of the Vogtle nuclear plant.
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