Georgia Power, being for-profit and shareholder-owned, is regulated by the elected officials of the state Public Service Commission, and for decades, the fate of Units 3 and 4 played out in public hearings at the commission. It was the commission that had the final say about how much of the astronomical price tag for Vogtle could be passed along to electric customers and how much would be taken as a loss by the shareholders.
Abraham Kenmore
Abraham Kenmore is a freelance reporter in North Carolina. He covers the intersection of people, policy, and politics across the South.