Georgia Power raises rates
The bill for an average residential household will rise more than $14 as the power company hikes its rates and charges new fees for a nuclear construction project.
Members of the Public Service Commission voted earlier this month to allow the power company to make one of its sharpest rate increases in recent years. Georgia Power executives said it was necessary to compensate for falling revenues and upgrade power plants to comply with environmental rules.
Separately, Georgia's state government is allowing the company to charge its customers for the finance costs of building two nuclear reactors near Waynesboro. The reactors have not received final federal approval.
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Worker injured after GE turbine collapse
WASHINGTON - A GE turbine collapsed at a wind farm in north-east Brazil, injuring a worker and sparking a probe into the fifth such incident this year, the manufacturer confirmed.
One of the manufacturer’s GE 2.72-116 turbines collapsed at Omega Energia’s Delta VI project in Maranhão, which was commissioned in 2018.
Three GE employees were on site at the time of the collapse on Tuesday (3 September), the US manufacturer confirmed.
One worker was injured and is currently receiving medical treatment, GE added.
"We are working to determine the root cause of this incident and to provide proper support as needed," it said
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