格鲁吉亚力量现在表示将花费89.6亿美元，以便从其原始估算为7.6美元的垃圾填埋场，从7.6美元的比赛，而环保主义者争夺公司以使客户支付清理和关闭的计划。

10月26日乔治亚州上诉法院驳回了the Sierra Club's appeal of the state Public Service Commission’s decision that allows the power company, a unit of Southern Co., to pass remediation costs to ratepayers and earn a rate of return. “Georgia Power should not earn a profit for mismanaging coal ash for decades,” David Rogers, Sierra Club southeast regional director for the Beyond Coal Campaign, told ENR. "If it had done something, the cost would be much lower."

The group has asked the appeals court to reconsider its decision and may file a new appeal to the state Supreme Court , continuing to challenge of further cost-shifting proposals before the commission, he says. The approval was for past costs only, a total of $525 million.

Georgia Power has now spent $856 million on coal ash closure efforts, it said in an October filing to the commission. The total to close all coal ash ponds, which contain less than half of the utility’s legacy coal ash generation, is now estimated at $7.1 billion, and the cost to close site landfills is $1.9 billion. “The current forecast applicable to retail customers over the next 60 years or more is approximately $8.96 billion,” the utility said.

A utility spokesman says the firm "took early action to quickly and safely begin closing all of its ash ponds with a key priority being to protect water quality .... and is in the process of completely excavating 19 ash ponds with the remaining 10 being closed in place using proven engineering methods and closure technologies. The company has made closure construction progress at 22 ash ponds at 9 facilities."

Georgia’s Environmental Protection Division approved six permits and two draft permits for coal combustion residue (CCR) landfill closures. Environmental consultants Stantec Consulting Services, Geosyntec, Oasis and GEI are consultants on the six projects. Dewatering plans are approved for eight sites.

10月份报告称，填埋场的垃圾填埋场的计划是特定于现场的，每个项目都以设计，脱水和建设进行了进展，并且在10月份报告中表示。

Engineering, dewatering and permitting activities have advanced and groundwater monitoring and reporting is ongoing as more sites move into active construction, the report says, with project work locations depicted in the graphic below:

Source: Georgia Power

佐治亚州官员在夏天挑战了两次垃圾填埋场的许可证，这些都是由塞拉克拉俱乐部挑战，该俱乐部挑战，该俱乐部表示，即使他们被排列，喀尔特地区的垃圾填埋场中的煤灰也是不安全的。“他们不保护地下水，”罗杰斯说。

"The company worked with third-party professional engineers and geologists to design the plans on a site-by-site basis, specifically including geology of the area, among other factors," says the Georgia Power spokesman. "The closure is designed to be stable" throughout the process and afterward, he contends. "Design elements include things like foundation improvement plans, structural integrity monitoring and inspections performed by licensed professional engineers during closure and after closure is complete."

发言人表示，在格鲁吉亚动力灰池塘中有大约9000万铜yd灰烬，该实用程序将拆除和挖掘5000万Cu Yd的灰烬。

The utility expects coal ash permitting will continue through 2023 with final landfill closures in 2051. It is considering adding solar generation at closed sites.

The company has said it made construction progress at 22 ash ponds at nine plants, including dewatering, ash excavation and site restoration. It does not yet have construction permits from Georgia regulators for the sites. The company is adding dewatering projects at seven coal ash ponds but has not submitted dewatering plans for other sties. All ash ponds are expected to close by 2037.

Georgia Power monitors groundwater at ash ponds and landfills and has installed comprehensive groundwater monitoring networks including more than 600 wells at its power plants, the October report says.

It partnered last year with the Electric Power Research Institute last year to open the Ash Beneficial Use Center, which will test pilot project technologies in ash beneficial reuse, says the Georgia Power spokesman. Her adds that the company already recycles more than 83% of fly ash produced from current operations and more than 93% of all ash and gypsum, including for reuse such as in concrete production and other construction products.

本实用公司在现有的灰池中使用储存灰分的第一个大型有益使用项目正在植物米切尔，驻奥尔巴尼附近的植物米切尔进行。

Georgia Power is negotiating with bidders who responded to a request for proposals for beneficial use of stored coal ash and expects to make a selection later this year or early 2022.

"We are in the process of finalizing the RFP process to select successful bidders," says the spokesman.

Courts Also Rule On S.C. Ash

与此同时，南卡罗来纳州最高法院维持该州的公共服务委员会决定减少公用事业公爵能源对州立税店的煤灰补救措施的报销，将其限制在追随联邦法规的成本，而不是在北卡罗来纳州更严格的清理法律。

Duke owns power plants in North and South Carolina. The utility requested $5.4 billion for coal ash remediation from the two states, allotting $1.5 billion for South Carolina under a historic cost sharing scheme. The state commission reduced the amount to $709 million, which covered remediation costs using the federal Coal Combustion Rule requirements.

北卡罗来纳州的植物在州法律下颁布了更严格的清理要求，以回应大规模2014煤灰泄漏到丹江。

杜克historically shares costs between the two state jurisdictions, with North Carolina paying 75% and South Carolina paying 25%, but the court said the commission, when cutting the coal ash reimbursement in half, followed its past policy of not allowing the sharing of costs related to state-specific laws.

法院表示，“委员会”解释了其一致的过去的做法是禁止作为一个国家法律的直接结果产生的成本，这是对该管辖权的具体规定的。“18luck.cub“推理丹河泄漏是北卡罗来纳州的推动力......颁布[法律]，[委托]结束，要求南卡罗来纳州的客户需要支付因公爵的刑事疏忽和所造成的刑事疏忽而产生的成本是不合理的18luck.cub北卡罗来纳州单边行动。

The commission also said the North Carolina law did not confer any benefits to South Carolina ratepayers, nor were they able to influence North Carolina lawmakers.