The Plant Vogtle nuclear power station near Augusta was placed under an “alert” level emergency for hours Tuesday afternoon after a transformer caught fire outside the facility, but Georgia Power says ...

Georgia Power’s Plant Vogtle units 1-4, in March 2024. Nearly 190,000 Georgia Power customers were disconnected in 2024 due to the inability to pay bills after a record-high rate increases were ...

Georgia is now the largest provider of clean energy in the country. Gov. Brian Kemp visited Plant Vogtle on Wednesday to see the nuclear plant decades in the making for himself. “We are the only state ...

Gov. Brian Kemp celebrated the completion of the Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion Wednesday while acknowledging the obstacles that had to be overcome in building the first nuclear reactors in the U.S.

One of Georgia Power’s two new nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle has been offline for a week after a valve problem that emerged in one of the unit’s cooling systems triggered a shutdown. The reactor ...

Vogtle Unit 2. Source: NRC. WAYNESBORO, Ga. (AP) — Georgia’s largest nuclear plant declared an emergency alert Tuesday after an electrical transformer caught fire. The fire, described as small by ...

Georgia Power announced Monday that Unit 4 at Plant Vogtle has entered commercial operation, producing enough electricity to power approximately 500,000 homes and businesses throughout Georgia. Vogtle ...

Georgia Power declared today that Plant Vogtle Unit 4 has entered commercial operation and is now serving customers and the State of Georgia. The new unit, which can produce enough electricity to ...

ATLANTA - The second of two new nuclear reactors in Georgia has entered commercial operation, capping a project that cost billions more and took years longer than originally projected. Georgia Power ...

Vogtle represents the first new nuclear reactors built in the U.S. in more than 30 years, and no other company has announced a similar effort. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm urged electric ...