First Solar Sells 139 MW Campo Verde Solar Project
First Solar Inc. has sold the 139 MW Campo Verde solar project, located in Imperial County, Calif., to Southern Co. subsidiary Southern Power and Turner Renewable Energy....
View ArticleTed Turner Taking Coal Funds To Create Solar Odd Couple
Yet Atlanta businessman Ted Turner, a climate-change crusader, and Southern Co. (SO) , the second-largest utility in the U.S. by market value, have found a common interest developing giant solar farms,...
View ArticleSouthern Co. Nuclear Plant Plan Upheld By Appeals Court
's plan to build two nuclear reactors in Georgia failed to persuade a federal appeals court to revoke the license and reactor -design certification granted by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. A...
View ArticleCEO Says Vogtle Overruns Won't Hit Customers
Southern Co. CEO Tom Fanning said cost overruns on the construction of two nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle won't make a significant impact on customers' monthly power bills.
View ArticleRenewable Energy Still Not Competitive
Georgia Power also is undertaking the largest voluntary solar power construction program in the nation, while Southern Co....
View ArticleActivist Shareholders To Grill Southern Co. Execs On Renewables
"They're not putting as much attention on real 21st century energy ... as to holding on tightly to their traditional sources of nuclear and coal," she said. ......
View ArticleTea Party Targeting Southern Co. Power Monopoly
Tea party activists in Georgia are taking what appears to be a rare stand on energy, challenging a power utility's reluctance to increase solar energy and questioning the ballooning costs of building a...
View ArticleTea Party Organizes Against Southern Co. Power Monopoly
The tea party groups are also targeting Georgia Power over the rising cost to build two new nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle ....
View ArticleTea Party Targets Southern Co.'s Power Monopoly
Steam rises from the cooling towers of nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle in Waynesboro, Ga. (File Photo/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) . By Ray Henry THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Add a comment. ATLANTA - The Southern...
View ArticleClosing Of San Onofre Seen As Setback For Nuclear Power
Last year, its share fell to 19 percent, its lowest since 1998, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration . The four reactors being constructed by Southern Co. of Atlanta and Scana Corp....
View ArticlePhoenix Building Georgia's Largest Solar Farm On Old Cotton Farm
Phoenix, based in Sulzemoos, Germany, is installing JA Solar Holdings (JASO) Co. photovoltaic panels, SMA Solar Technology AG (S92) inverters and Unirac Inc. ground-mounting systems. Southern Co....
View ArticleRegulators OK Solar Expansion For Georgia Power
The elected members of the Public Service Commission voted 4-1 today to require that Southern Co. subsidiary Georgia Power seek to add 525 megawatts of solar energy to its network....
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