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News Articles: Georgia Power

Units 1 and 2 of Georgia Power’s Plant Volte nuclear power plant, background, and one of the new new cooling towers brought online in 2024, foreground.

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  • Energy

Georgia Power agrees to hold rates steady, but that doesn't include hurricane recovery costs

Georgia Power announced on Monday that it has agreed to a plan with regulatory staff to hold base power rates steady through the end of 2028. But customer bills could still rise in 2026.

May 20, 2025
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By:
  • Associated Press and
  • Grant Blankenship
 Georgia Power’s requested rate increase would add $16.29 – about $200 annually – to the average residential customer’s bill over the next three years, starting in 2023 with a $14.32 hike. John McCosh/Georgia Recorder

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  • Politics

Clock ticking for Georgia voter registration to elect two new members to Public Service Commission

Monday is the last day to register to vote in the June 17 primary to fill two Georgia Public Service Commission seats on an embattled board that has faced criticism for a series of Georgia Power rate hikes over the last several years.

May 19, 2025
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap and
  • Georgia Recorder
Georgia Power hosted company and project leaders, as well as state and local elected officials, for a groundbreaking ceremony at the BESS location in Floyd County on April 18, 2025. Georgia Power

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  • News

Georgia Power builds four new battery storage facilities. One’s in Bibb County.

Construction is underway at four new battery energy storage system sites located across Georgia, including one in Bibb County, totaling 765 megawatts of power.

May 09, 2025
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By:
  • Margaret Walker and
  • The Telegraph
A stock image of a data center

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  • Politics

Delayed PSC races heat up as candidates take aim at Georgia Power rate hikes, data center growth

Several candidates are vying to defeat a pair of incumbent Republican Georgia Public Service commissioners in an election that challengers say will become a referendum on rising Georgia Power bills.

April 04, 2025
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap and
  • Georgia Recorder
Sierra Club of Georgia community activist Keyanna Jones Moore leads a group of demonstrators outside Tuesday’s Georgia Public Service Commission meeting about Georgia Power’s controversial energy roadmap. Stanley Dunlap/Georgia Recorder.

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  • News

Georgia Power rolls out new long-term plan, red carpet for more data centers

A panel of Georgia Power representatives testified for eight hours at Tuesday’s Public Service Commission hearing about its controversial roadmap for meeting large-scale, data center-driven energy demands over the next decade.

March 26, 2025
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap
Georgia Power's Plant Scherer, right, and its Ash Pond 1, upper left, in September of 2023.

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  • Environment

EPA rollbacks could change rules at GA coal plants. Could they affect your health?

The Environmental Protection Agency is rolling back dozens of rules, programs and grants — a handful of which will alter regulations for Georgia’s coal-fired power plants.

March 19, 2025
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By:
  • Margaret Walker
 Bob Sherrier, attorney for the Southern Environmental Law Center, said during Thursday’s Senate regulated industries committee that SB 34 will hold data centers accountable for energy costs. Stanley Dunlap/Georgia Recorder

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  • News

State senator pushes bill to protect Georgia Power customers from rate hikes fueled by data centers

Georgia Power, a national data center association, and clean energy groups are divided over the need for legislation that would prevent state-regulated utilities from raising electricity rates to cover the costs of energy-guzzling data centers.

February 10, 2025
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap
Freight trains encircle, and earth moving equipment dots, the massive coal yard in front of Georgia Power's Plant Scherer in 2019.

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  • Environment

Georgia Power's new plan for generating electricity pushes burning coal into the state's future

Georgia's largest provider of electricity says retiring coal will have to wait due to massive energy needs from new manufacturing but mainly from internet data centers.

February 03, 2025
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship

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  • News

Georgia Power hiking rates next month

Georgia energy regulators have signed off on a 3.5% rate increase for customers of Georgia Power. Members of the state Public Service Commission (PSC) unanimously approved the increase Tuesday, which will raise average residential customer bills by $5.48 per month.

December 19, 2024
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By:
  • Dave Williams
A hundred or so people in church pews in various stages of engagement in a public conversation.

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  • Environment

Decades-long dispute over whether coal ash made Monroe County residents ill is settled out of court

Long-running lawsuits brought against Georgia Power by residents of the Monroe County town of Juliette have been resolved "to the satisfaction of both parties."

December 10, 2024
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
A banner hangs during a ceremony announcing a proposed $300 million expansion of Google's data center operations Tuesday, June 2, 2015, in Lithia Springs, Ga. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, vetoed a bill that would have suspended tax breaks for new and expanding data centers.

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  • Energy

Georgia Power says data center growth will cause electricity demands to triple in next decade

Critics warn of more fossil fuel use and surging customer costs.

December 02, 2024
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap
 The Georgia Public Service Commission approved in 2024 an updated Georgia Power resource plan that includes building 1,000 megawatt solar facilities by 2027. File photo

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  • News

State House study panel hears renewed arguments between community solar advocates and Georgia Power

Georgia Power and solar industry representatives renewed their long-running debate before lawmakers Tuesday over whether setting up a new solar program would provide the same benefits to ratepayers as the existing renewable energy options.

November 21, 2024
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap
The Mossy Branch Energy Facility is located in Talbot County, Georgia.. The 65 MW plant can power up to 55,000 homes. Photo courtesy of Georgia Power

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  • News

Georgia Power, local leaders celebrate state’s first battery plant opening. Take a look

Georgia Power's new 65 megawatt battery energy storage system named Mossy Branch Energy Facility in Talbot County went live recently.

November 11, 2024
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By:
  • Kala Hunter
Georgia Power employees on truck. (Georgia Power/Facebook)

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  • News

Critics assail cost of Georgia Power biomass projects

Opponents of a proposal by Georgia Power to add more biomass to the utility’s electrical generating portfolio argued Thursday the plan is both unreliable and too expensive. Georgia Power is seeking approval from the state Public Service Commission (PSC) to buy about 80 megawatts of electricity from three plants in South Georgia that burn wood chips from waste generated by logging operations.

September 13, 2024
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By:
  • Dave Williams
Georgia Public Service Commissioner Jason Shaw has said he embraced biomass energy after the South Georgia resident witnessed the large number of fallen trees and debris in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael in 2019. File photo

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  • News

Critics blast Georgia Power plan to burn wood for fuel as critics warn of costs, pollution

The Georgia Public Service Commission is set to vote Sept. 17 on Georgia Power’s proposal to burn wood pellets and other organic materials to generate energy and has raised environmental concerns and high costs being passed on to customers.

September 02, 2024
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap
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