The pandemic is still in full force [eating] away at our opportunity to recover lost time from 2020," says Hinkley Point C project's managing director.
After pushing to cap its financial responsibility for escalating construction costs at the Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion, project co-owner Oglethorpe Power Corp. was still considering Georgia Power’s demands to approve continued construction without new conditions late on Sept. 25.
Under some scenarios, a new Trump administration proposal to reduce carbon emissions from power plants could curtail the construction of new natural gas combined-cycle power plants by as much as 30% and increase the use of existing coal plants by 13%, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s own regulatory impact analysis on its proposal, the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule.
State construction monitors are skeptical that builders of the Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion can overcome a daunting labor shortage and meet Georgia Power’s accelerated project schedule.
