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Plant Vogtle

Timeline of Events
- 1987 - Plant Vogtle Unit 1 goes online.
- 1989 - Plant Vogtle Unit 2 goes online.
- 2006 - Southern Nuclear begins planning to add Units 3 and 4 to Plant Vogtle.
- 2008 - Engineering, procurement and construction contracts are signed, outlining projected completion dates of 2016 and 2017 for Units 3 and 4, respectively. Total project costs estimated at $14.3 billion.
- 2008 - JEA signs Purchase Power Agreement with MEAG. JEA’s portion of project cost capped at $1.4 billion.
- 2009 - Georgia Public Service Commission and Nuclear Regulatory Commission approve construction.
- 2011 - First reports surface of construction delays, putting project five months behind schedule.
- 2012 - NRC inspectors report faulty construction with rebar in Unit 3, setting project back six months behind schedule.
- 2012 - Project contractors file $900 million suit against utility partners for construction design changes. Contractors are forced to repair welding on reactor components, pushing project to one year behind schedule.
- 2013 - Georgia Power requests approval for cost overruns, increasing cost estimate from $14.3 billion to $15.5 billion (8.4% increase)
- 2015 - Major contractor shakeups result in Westinghouse becoming sole construction contractor, helping resolve legal disputes about design change costs. Legal settlement increases project cost by $754 million.
- 2017 - Westinghouse files for bankruptcy protection and Southern Nuclear becomes main project contractor. New assessments push total project cost from $19 billion to about $23 billion and adjusts service launch of Units 3 and 4 to 2021 and 2022, respectively, although Georgia PSC analysts determine project is “no longer economic.” In light of the bankruptcy, a new unlimited cost-plus-reimbursement agreement is implemented without JEA approval, increasing JEA’s liability to more than $2.9 billion, an uncapped and rising amount.
- 2018 - Project owners learn completion of the half-built reactors will require an additional $2.3 billion. JEA and the City of Jacksonville file lawsuit against MEAG Power to be freed from Purchase Power Agreement—and uncapped debt obligations—as cost-to-completion estimates now exceed $30 billion.
Ratepayers across Georgia, Alabama and northeast Florida are shouldering this project’s exorbitant and ever-ballooning costs with no guarantee they will receive the power promised by the new units. All of the project owners are responsible for the interests of our collective ratepayers, and JEA will continue working to find a course of action that relieves them of this unfair burden.
JEA, following the decision by Plant Vogtle partners to continue construction on the project, September 24, 2018
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