Both Republicans and Democrats running for the open seat on Georgia’s powerful Public Service Commission broadly agreed the commission should take a heavier hand in what the state’s largest electrical utility should charge its customers.
Georgia Power is preparing to dispose of more than two million tons of toxic coal ash currently stored in ponds at Plant Arkwright in Macon, the power company announced to neighbors of the plant Feb. 18 during an informational session.
On the Feb 18th Edition: A Republican on the state Public Service Commission says she won't run for reelection; Georgia Power offers a plan to lower electricity bills; and one day after the death of a beloved teacher during an ICE immigrant enforcement action, protesters took to the streets in Savannah.
Over the objections of many residents and the recommendation of its own planning and zoning board, city leaders in Forsyth approved a rezoning of a swath of timberland for a hyperscale data center.
Fulton County prosecutors will not move ahead with felony charges against an environmental advocate Patty Durand who took a Georgia Power notebook of what it called trade secrets during a regulatory hearing last year.
The Georgia Public Service Commission unanimously approved an unprecedented addition of nearly 10 gigawatts to Georgia Power’s ability to make electricity for data centers, a move decried before and after by environmental advocates.
The second of three new Mitsubishi Power natural gas turbines has arrived at Plant Yates in Coweta County, Georgia Power announced Monday in a news release.
Two reports by professional staff working for Georgia’s Public Service Commission say Georgia Power is vastly overestimating its need for new generation capacity due to the growth in data centers and that customer bills could rise because of that.
The first of three new Mitsubishi Power natural gas turbines has arrived at Plant Yates in Coweta County, Georgia Power announced Friday in a news release.
