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Southern Company downgraded to sell over Kemper coal and Vogtle nuclear
Time to break out of the utility death spiral by breaking away from cost overruns at Kemper “clean” Coal and the Plant Vogtle nuclear boondoggle and getting on with real renewable solar and wind...
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The fragility of centralized energy systems
All thermal power generation requires water for cooling, with nukes so vulnerable no private insurer will cover them anyway and failing frequently in recent heat waves. “Natural” gas is no better than...
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NRC nuke waste plan failed federal appeal
Why the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is trying to get the public’s confidence in nuclear waste management: NRC lost an appeal in 2012. Southern Company’s new nukes at Plant Vogtle scraped by...
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Energy Policy Act of 2005 considered harmful
The same Energy Policy Act of 2005 that subsidized dirty oil and fracked methane including LNG exports also funded that oxymoron “clean” coal such as Southern Company’s Plant Ratcliffe in Mississippi,...
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Solar or wind investment will produce more energy than oil or natural gas
We already knew solar and wind are better investments than nuclear or natural gas, and now we find they’re already better than oil. In Impact Lab 18 September 2014, $100B invested in wind or solar...
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Georgia Power can’t get a schedule from its own contractors for Vogtle...
After two years of no integrated project schedule (IPS), Georgia Power tried to get the the elected Public Service Commissioners to tell it how to enforce a contract for Plant Vogtle that Georgia...
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Georgia Power buys 99MW in two Georgia solar projects
Decatur County scores two big solar projects. When will Lowndes County get a move on in solar? How about some projects like this at your empty industrial parks, Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority?...
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Video: Solar panels, heck yeah! –Tom Fanning, CEO, at SO stockholder meeting...
Tom Fanning, our genial CEO host, said some things I’ve never heard him say before like Southern Company is “pivoting towards wind” and SO’s board soon has to decide whether to go forward with Plant...
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Big Bets keep getting worse for Southern Company
OSHA certified a “continuing pattern of retaliatory treatment” at Kemper “clean” Coal after an employee alerted Southern Company of alleged fraud: SO fired him, refused to hire him back and now he’s...
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Southern Company sells off gas assets second time this year 2018-11-07
For the second time this year, Southern Company sells off gas-fired assets. Could it be to service debt for those way-late and over-budget Plant Vogtle nukes? Southern Company, PR, 7 November 2018,...
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