Shoreham was finally completed and won its operating license. The plant completed its 5% power testing but was never put into commercial operation. Gov. Mario Cuomo, an opponent of a Shoreham startup, strong-armed New York's public-utilities commission into the following settlement: the power company could pass the cost of Shoreham along to its consumers only if it agreed not to operate the plant! Today, a perfectly good facility, capable of serving hundreds of thousands of homes, sits rusting.