Identifying Leaders: "Solar in the Southeast" Annual Report blog series (part 3 of 5)
This is part three in a five-part series about the SACE “Solar in the Southeast” 2017 Annual Report To view other blogs in this series, click here. Identifying Utility Solar Leaders and "SunRisers"…
Will EPD cut Plant Washington slack – again – or finally cut it loose?
This blog was written by Amelia Shenstone, former Regional Advocacy Director with the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.
Developer Admits to Plant Washington Scheme
It’s official: Dean Alford, developer of Plant Washington and spokesman for Power4Georgians (P4G), admitted on the record that he never planned to use the $27-million-plus he's finagled from customers of Georgia's Electrical Membership…
Largest Remaining Investor Still Stuck In Plant Washington Boondoggle
At the February 16 meeting of its Board of Directors, Snapping Shoals EMC had a chance to do the right thing and end its involvement in developing two new coal-fired power plants…
Victory: Cobb EMC Pulls Out of Coal-fired Power Plants
Late on the evening of January 24, the board of directors at Cobb EMC made an unprecedented about-face, and voted to freeze the EMC’s funding for two coal-fired power plants: Plant Washington…
Southern Co. says NO to new coal but Dean Alford plows ahead with bad business deal
Southern Company, the dinosaur of the utility world, has now declared new coal plants a dead end due to competitive prices of natural gas. The April 18, 2011 Energy & Coal Price Report reports…
Corruption at Helm of Plant Washington - Dwight Brown Indicted
UPDATE: On Jan. 8, the Marietta Daily Journal published an article including SACE and others' on responses to the indictment. On Thursday, Jan 6, 2011 Dwight Brown, CEO of Cobb EMC, was…
New GA Report Offers Efficiency Alternatives to Dirty Coal
On Tuesday, March 9th the Ochs Center for Metropolitan Studies out of Chattanooga, TN released a report entitled, "Energy Efficiency as an Alternative Strategy for the Power4Georgians EMC". The report identifies how…
Cobb EMC in Georgia Tops List of Bad Coop Practices
Last week in Atlanta, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) held their annual meeting, which brought together leaders from over 900 Electric Membership Cooperatives (EMCs) across the country. The annual meeting…
Case Builds Against Plant Washington in Georgia
As we begin to reflect on our 2009 coal challenge in Georgia, it is clear that the opposition to Plant Washington continues to grow and we are confident that in 2010 Power4Georgians, the…