As Georgia Power created a plan to save its troubled, billions-over-budget Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion project and request five more years to finish it, the utility and its parent company relied on cost, schedule and risk analyses prepared by Bechtel, Black & Veatch and consultants that included Pegasus-Global Holdings Inc. and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Ultimately, Georgia Power solicited cost-to-complete proposals from Fluor Corp. and Bechtel and chose Bechtel to oversee construction work as part of its plan. By no means, however, is the plan for Bechtel to provide turnkey services under a typical engineer-procure-construct contract. Its work and scope is carefully delineated so that Bechtel shoulders no risk if its scope increases or some of its calculations were based on incorrect information provided by the utility and have to be redone.

In a Georgia Public Service Commission-required document, titled “Georgia Power Co.’s17th Annual Construction Monitoring Report对于植物vogtle单元3和4,” Bechtel appears prepared to perform about $4.4 billion worth of work under its control. The contract appears to be a non-at-risk pact to manage direct labor at the site near Waynesboro for a fee of about $240 million, according to documents filed with the state public service commission by Georgia Power. Additionally, Bechtel stands to earn an extra $120 million in incentive payments, according to Macquarie Securities. That unconfirmed figure was published in Macquarie’s latest analysis for investors in Southern Co., Georgia Power’s parent.

“贝克特尔估计很大程度上符合that of [Southern Co. and Georgia Power] though Bechtel’s schedule on average was six months shorter,” wrote Macquarie’s analysts. The incentive payment is owed if Bechtel “delivers on its ambitious schedule,” the company stated.

贝克特referred questions about the terms of its agreement to Georgia Power, which referred the matter to a media manager at Southern Co. The company was busy preparing for Hurricane Irma and did not respond in time for ENR’s deadline.

Source: Georgia Power Co.’s17th Annual Construction Monitoring Report对于植物vogtle单元3和4

在对任务的评估下，Bechtel对手工艺，现场工程，设备，建筑质量控制和合同管理以及其他职责的责任大小。The company specifically didn’t evaluate subcontracts, design, engineering, and possible delays, defects or resulting rework. Nor did Bechtel assess procurement and site delivery and related rework, startup and commissioning, fuel-related issues, site security, or overall project integration and management.

主要承包商Westinghouse将Fluor Corp.带入了该项目，当时是一名非风险的白骑士，之后，邵氏集团和芝加哥桥梁和铁削减了他们的高风险合同，以逃避在南卡罗来纳州Vogtle及其双胞胎的损失，V.C.夏季项目。这两项工作都有Westinghouse的新AP1000反应堆设计。在Westinghouse下工作的Fluor无法产生希望的结果。借助Southern Co.的核部门，Bechtel似乎准备介入担任经理的建设。

Georgia Power Lauds Bechtel

说到贝克特的责任，佐治亚州的权力说，这是“世界上最受尊敬的工程，建筑和项目管理公司之一，将作为主要建筑承包商。”

贝克特already is at work on the project, although in a limited role, with 220 employees on the nuclear island. Georgia Power said Westinghouse, prior to its bankruptcy filing in March, brought in Bechtel in January for “leadership augmentation” to remove scope from Fluor and self-perform nuclear-island construction.

Under the plan, Unit 3 begins operation in November, 2021; Unit 4 will begin a year later. Both units will cost an additional $9.45 billion. Georgia’s PSC must vote to saddle ratepayers with a chunk of those costs and Westinghouse’s parent must cough up $1.4 billion, too. The companies that had been building Plant Vogtle’s South Carolina twin chose to shut it down rather than continue.

Depending on what Georgia’s PSC decides, Plant Vogtle could still meet the same fate.