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Faith groups and environmental advocates filed a lawsuit in Fulton County Superior Court seeking to reverse Georgia Power's nearly 10-gigawatt expansion plan approved by regulators in December 2025. The filing argues the Georgia Public Service Commission…
Environmental groups including the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy are petitioning Georgia regulators to reconsider and scale back a major Georgia Power expansion approved in December 2025. The coalition argues that the approved nearly 10 gigawatts…
A new report by Southern Alliance for Clean Energy reveals that Georgia Power's energy efficiency savings lag significantly behind the national average at 0.39% of total sales compared to 0.7% for large utilities nationwide. The article…
Georgia Power is seeking approval for a long-term energy plan based on predictions of massive electricity demand growth driven largely by data center expansion. Energy experts and advocacy groups, including the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy,…
WABE's Closer Look podcast episode features Stan Cross, electric transportation director at the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, discussing the current state of Georgia's electric vehicle industry and potential impacts of the incoming Trump administration's promise…
Georgia leads the nation in electric vehicle manufacturing jobs, with over 27,000 positions announced, driven by major investments like the Hyundai plant near Savannah and EV battery makers. However, a new report by the Southern Alliance…
“The Public Service Commissions and Public Utilities Commissions are supposed to govern the monopoly utilities to make sure that they're making the decisions that are in the best interest of the ratepayers and not necessarily in the best interest of shareholders”
The Electric Black Futures project, funded by $1.4 million in Department of Energy grants, brings together SACE, EVNoire, and Clean Cities Georgia to develop equitable transportation plans for Black communities in Atlanta, Albany, and Savannah. SACE's…
Georgia Power's request to generate and purchase more electricity to meet surging demand from data centers faces scrutiny from energy regulators, experts, and advocates. The utility's plan relies heavily on fossil fuels including new gas and…
“I think it's a decent deal in terms of the ultimate dollar figure that they arrived at. It's a little unclear how they got there.”
Georgia is developing its first statewide climate change plan with $3 million in federal funding from the Inflation Reduction Act, with a focus on electric vehicle manufacturing and adoption. Chris Carnavale of the Southern Alliance for…
Georgia Power is requesting another rate increase of approximately $15.90 per month for typical residential customers, the second of three expected increases in 2023, citing rising natural gas costs. Jeremy Kalin testified on behalf of the…
Qcells' $2.5 billion expansion in Georgia to manufacture solar panels domestically is part of a broader U.S. strategy to reduce reliance on overseas solar imports, enabled by incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act. Bryan Jacobs of…
Georgia's Public Service Commission approved a rate increase for Georgia Power in a 4-1 vote on December 20, 2022. The first rate hike takes effect January 1, 2023, with additional increases to follow over three years.…
“What we're seeing nationwide is that the states that set the conditions to really support the adoption of electric transportation, and that are aggressively working as a state but also with their investor-owned utilities to deploy charging infrastructure at scale, is where the market is strongest”
