Delaware rate payers could be paying a lot more with the estimate for a new power line to the Artificial Island nuclear complex.
The cost has jumped from an original estimate of $137 million to $272 million.
That has angered Delaware Public Advocate David Bonar.
The Wilmington News Journal reports that he says that the First State’s rate payers will be paying 99 percent of the cost for New Jersey’s rate payers.
The transmission line connects Artificial Island to Delaware.
The project is expected to improve reliability and increase the nuclear power plant’s output.
The total cost of the project is now more than $400 million.
