Jim Warren

NC attorney general challenges Duke Energy rate increase – The Charlotte Observer

March 29, 2012

Attorney General Roy Cooper said Wednesday he will appeal the 7 percent N.C. rate hike Duke Energy won in January.

SC nuclear project likely hinges on NORTH Carolina approval – News release by NC WARN

March 28, 2012

This Friday, the NRC is expected to approve a Construction and Operating License for two Westinghouse AP1000 reactors at the VC Summer nuclear plant in South Carolina. The project, being developed by South Carolina Electric & Gas, is likely to hinge on Duke Energy and/or Progress Energy buying into it after a COL is issued.

Progress Energy BREAKS nuclear plant – price tag $2.5 billion and rising

March 5, 2012

Progress Energy can congratulate itself for skirting major controversy at its three nuclear plants in the Carolinas in recent years. But 700 miles south of here, the Raleigh-based utility’s nuclear plant in Florida is experiencing one of the most exorbitant and bewildering mishaps in the history of the nation’s nuclear industry.

Problems mount at nuclear construction in Georgia – News Release by NC WARN

March 1, 2012

Who gets soaked? Taxpayer loan guarantees pending as contractors begin feeding frenzy on cost overruns due to long-standing and new design problems.

Company plans to finish 15 solar farms this year – The News & Observer

February 25, 2012

Strata Solar plans 15 industrial-scale solar farms for completion this year – including three in Wake and Chatham counties – each with a power capacity of about 5 megawatts. Strata Solar executives are closing in on a deal that would be the state’s biggest solar farm, at about 20 megawatts.

Groups: Southern Company Does Not Have Real “Skin in the Game” if Vogtle Reactor Loan Guarantee Defaults

February 23, 2012

Industry group spreading falsehoods about viability of controversial nuclear project.

Cost Overruns Hit another Nuclear Construction Project – This one in South Carolina, Press Release by NC WARN

February 21, 2012

A second U.S. nuclear power construction project is expected to receive a license within weeks, but a new document shows that the majority owner and contractors are arguing over who should pay the extra costs of at least 11 changes totaling over $380 million for two Westinghouse AP1000 reactors.

NC WARN, allies sue NRC over new reactors

February 16, 2012

With more than 15 times the Solyndra loan guarantee on the line, U.S. taxpayers being kept in the dark about huge Vogtle risks; nine groups cite NRC law violation in going to court to block Vogtle licensing.

Listen to Jim Warren’s comments during a short audio clip from Atlanta public radio.
US groups file suit to block new Southern Vogtle reactors – Reuters
Groups sue to stop Vogtle expansion project – Atlanta Journal Constitution
Motion to stop Vogtle construction – with Dr. Makhijani’s analysis

Clean energy groups call for expanded evacuation zones, improved emergency planning around U.S. nuclear reactors – Nuclear Information and Resource Service and NC WARN

February 15, 2012

Thirty-seven clean energy groups today submitted a formal petition for rulemaking to the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission seeking adoption of new regulations to expand emergency evacuation zones and improve emergency response planning around U.S. nuclear reactors.

Nuclear agency approves first nuclear reactors since 1978 – USA Today

February 9, 2012

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved the nation’s first nuclear power plant in a generation on Thursday, clearing the way for Atlanta-based Southern Co. to build two reactors at its Plant Vogtle site near Augusta.