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Georgia's Public Service Commission approved a plan for Georgia Power to add more solar capacity and battery storage over the next five years, while also approving an equal amount of natural gas energy generation. The utility…
A WABE article reports on a conflict between Georgia Power's plan to phase out coal-fired power plants and state regulators' potential resistance to that transition. The article notes this battle is occurring in the wake of…
Georgia's Public Service Commission approved an $873 million rate hike for Georgia Power customers over three years, with bills rising approximately $100 annually. The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy signed onto the compromise deal alongside Georgia…
AARP launches radio and internet ads opposing Georgia Power's rate hike request, despite a tentative settlement that would reduce the increase from $1.46 billion to $873 million. Georgia Power spokesman John Kraft notes that consumer advocacy…
“The Public Service Commission has to wake up. It looks like Georgia Power is going to be able to kick the can down the road and potentially not address some of these issues until Vogtle 3 – the first of the new two reactors – is finished and that's too long for consumers to know how much they're going to be on the hook.”
“That would have been such an excellent opportunity to do some real investments in energy efficiency and renewables which are inherently water-saving. Instead they chose nearly the most water-intensive energy supply option there is. It can't just be this 'if not coal, then nuclear' or we are stuck just where we are today which is this expensive, water-hogging energy infrastructure.”
Georgia Power announced that the Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion project near Augusta is over $700 million over budget and 19 months behind schedule, with total costs now approaching $14 billion. Sara Barzack of the Southern Alliance…
“It isn't a solar or a nuclear or a whatever argument, it is a fairness to U.S. taxpayers argument.”
