xpost: Progress Energy nuclear plant delayed by at least 20 months

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Progress Energy nuclear plant delayed by at least 20 months

Source: St. Petersburg Times

Progress Energy’s $17 billion nuclear project has been delayed by 20 months, but its customers will continue to pay for it in their monthly electric bills.

The utility wants to start charging customers nearly twice as much next year for the Levy County project even though it won’t start producing power until March 2018 at the earliest, the St. Petersburg utility announced Friday morning. The delay may also increase the price of the project, but the utility won’t know the details until later this year.

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Be sure to read the first reply, it has important information:

1. Fight Progress Energy's Unconstitutional Rate Hike!

Edited on Fri May-01-09 04:27 PM by Dr.Phool

My good friend Suzan Franks asked me to post this. Suzan ran for the State Senate last year against Charlie Dean. She's putting together a non-partisan coalition to fight this. There is a bill to stop this right now, but the republicans won't give it a committee hearing, so it's dead.

Suzan is a former NH school board member, who founded kindergarten in the state. She's also a former Nashua Alderman and NH State Legislator.

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