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41 mentions for outlet: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Environmental and faith groups, including the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, have filed a court petition challenging Georgia Power's PSC-approved expansion of power resources to serve data centers. The groups argue the utility failed to prove…
Georgia's Public Service Commission rejected a petition for reconsideration of its approval of Georgia Power's massive data center power plant expansion, which includes nearly 10,000 megawatts of new gas-burning plants, battery storage, and solar capacity. The…
Environmental groups including the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy filed a petition with Georgia's Public Service Commission to reconsider its December 2025 approval of Georgia Power's historic $60 billion expansion of gas-burning power plants and battery…
“We believe we are out of time to be protecting consumers”
Georgia Power has struck a deal with the PSC to freeze base rates through 2028 as the utility plans massive infrastructure expansion to serve data centers. Environmental and consumer protection groups oppose the agreement, arguing it…
Georgia Power is seeking a fuel cost rate increase of approximately $15.90 per month for customers, following a framework agreement with PSC staff that reduced the company's initial request by roughly $1.1 billion. The Southern Alliance…
“Regulations are not what's driving utility planning in Georgia right now. It's mainly economics that are driving coal retirements and customer demand that's driving the shift to clean energy, like solar.”
“praised Southern's new "zero" goal as significant for a powerful utility with a long history tied to fossil fuels and in a part of the nation that politically has been more resistant to acknowledging climate change. Still, he suggested that Southern put more focus on reaching its goals by using more renewables and through energy efficiency, rather than expensive and less-tested options.”
“We need openness and transparency”
“Even if they got this settled, we would find it hard to believe that Georgia Power wouldn't be on the hook for some of the costs. To see that their mediation and whatever else they were doing did not work so early in the project is a big red flag.”
“We were concerned from the beginning for Georgia Power ratepayers. Even if they got this settled, we would find it hard to believe that Georgia Power wouldn't be on the hook for some of the costs. To see that their mediation and whatever else they were doing did not work so early in the project is a big red flag”
“Waste is an environmental concern, it's a public health concern and it's become a security concern because we live in a different world now”
Former TVA chairman S. David Freeman criticizes the Tennessee Valley Authority's nuclear reactor building program, calling for it to "just stop" due to cost overruns and construction delays at Watts Bar Unit 2. Freeman blames the…
“The political will for oil drilling is going to further erode. And offshore wind in the Southeast is a tremendous resource. So we hope that Georgia doesn't miss the opportunity simply because of a lack of foresight or a willingness to stick with the status quo.”
“But by the time it gets around Georgia, it probably would be pretty dissipated”
