The Ohio Consumers' Counsel and attorneys for industrial energy groups urged the Ohio Supreme Court last week to overturn a regulatory ruling that allowed American Electric Power to collect nearly $24 million from customers for pre-construction costs related to a proposed 629-MW integrated gasification combined-cycle, or IGCC, power project.rnWhen the Public Utilities Commission authorized AEP in April 2006 to charge customers for the preliminary work, the Great Bend IGCC plant was estimated to cost $1.3 billion and to be generating electricity in 2010 (EUW, 17 April' 06, 13). Since then, the project's price tag has soared to $2.2 billion and its projected in-service date has been pushed back to the middle of the next decade.
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机译：俄亥俄消费者法律顾问和工业能源组织律师上周敦促俄亥俄最高法院推翻一项监管裁决，该裁决允许美国电力公司从客户那里收取将近2400万美元，作为与拟议中的629兆瓦综合气化合并所产生的建设前费用。当公用事业委员会于2006年4月授权AEP向客户收取前期工作费用时，Great Bend IGCC电厂的成本估计为13亿美元，2010年将发电（EUW，4月17日'06，13）。此后，该项目的价格飙升至22亿美元，预计投入使用的日期已推迟到下一个十年中期。
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