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News Articles: Georgia Power

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  • Environment

Georgia Power's Quiet Land Buying Spree Could Shield It From Coal Ash Clean Up Costs

Georgia Power paid top dollar to buy land from residents living near waste sites at its power plants. Environmentalists fear it’s a tactic to forestall the cleanup bill from new regulations for coal ash.

November 24, 2020
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By:
  • Max Blau
Georgia Power logo

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  • Economy

Georgia Power Service Cutoffs Rising Since End Of COVID-19 Moratorium

The number of Georgia Power customers who have had their service disconnected for nonpayment is rising steadily since the state Public Service Commission (PSC) lifted a pandemic-driven temporary moratorium on disconnections in July.

October 19, 2020
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By:
  • Dave Williams
residents protest coal plant

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  • Environment

Georgia Today: Lawsuit Claims Power Plant Tainting Neighbors’ Water Supply

A massive coal plant in Monroe County is being blamed for contaminating the local water supply. Georgia Today host Steve Fennessy talks with freelance journalist Max Blau about a lawsuit by residents who are demanding clean water.

August 07, 2020
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By:
  • Sean Powers and
  • Steve Fennessy
Ash pond in foreground of Plant Scherer

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  • Environment

Lawsuit Says Plant Scherer Is 'Poisoning' Locals

The mass tort lawsuit, filed Wednesday morning in the Superior Court of Fulton County, where Georgia Power is based, claims that coal ash stored in an unlined basin has contaminated the groundwater surrounding the plant site.

July 29, 2020
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By:
  • Max Blau
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Georgia Power Allowed To Bill Customers For COVID-19 Safety Costs

Georgia Power can recover $7.7 million it spent on COVID-19 safety expenses, but drew criticism over the message that it sends when it sticks customers...

July 09, 2020
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap/The Georgia Recorder
Georgia Power and Atlanta Gas Light are poised to resume shutting off service in July for customers who do not pay their bills following months of abstaining from disconnections during the coronavirus pandemic.

Georgia Power Service Shutoffs To Resume Mid-July

Georgia Power and Atlanta Gas Light are poised to resume shutting off service in July for customers who do not pay their bills following months of...

June 03, 2020
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By:
  • Beau Evans
Georgia Power is partnering with the Salvation Army and the Division of Family and Children Services to help qualifying, low-income households pay their energy bills.

Georgia Power Offers Bill Assistance Programs As Health Crisis Continues

One of Georgia's largest utility companies is offering special programs for people who may be struggling to pay their power bill. Georgia Power is...

April 06, 2020
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By:
  • Taylor Gantt
Georgia Power crews install transmission lines along Ga. Hwy 247 in preparation for an electrical substation that will power industrial airfield facilities and associate units.

Georgia Power, Other Companies Suspend Disconnections Amidst COVID-19 Concerns

As many Georgians prepare to work and study from home as schools and offices close to prevent the spread of coronavirus, several companies are taking...

March 16, 2020
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By:
  • Taylor Gantt
Fletcher Sams, right, explains to Gloria Hammond of Juliette, Ga. that the water in her well tests many times over the California limit for hexavalent chromium, a known carcinogen and constituent of coal ash.

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  • Environment

People Get Answers To What's In Their Water As Clock Ticks On Coal Ash Bills

It was late on a rainy night when Fletcher Sams of the Altamaha Riverkeeper guided his truck down a long muddy road to Ken and Dorothy Krakow’s home on...

March 11, 2020
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Coal ash as it leaves Georgia Power's Plant Scherer and settles into the ash pond adjacent to the plant.

A Georgia Coal Ash Bill Clears House Committee

A Georgia bill relating to coal ash management that fizzled last year has now passed out of committee. House Bill 93 would require owners of coal ash...

February 20, 2020
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Gloria Hammond says Georgia Power first asked to buy her home near the coal ash pond at the utility's Plant Scherer not long after her husband, Cason, was diagnosed with terminal cancer.

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  • Book News & Features

How One Town's Life With Coal Ash Inspired A Georgia Bill

Gloria Hammond remembers the day the man from Georgia Power came to talk about buying the home she shared with her husband Cason. They were just back...

January 29, 2020
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship and
  • Grant Blankenship
The coal ash pond, foreground, of Georgia Power's Plant Scherer near Juliette in August 2019.

House Bill Aimed At Storing Coal Ash Away From Groundwater

When trash leaves your house and goes to the landfill, that landfill has features in place that keep liquids from the trash from getting into...

January 14, 2020
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
A south Bibb County home sits dismantled at the corner of Kearnes and McArrell drives where Georgia Power will begin building a 650-acre solar farm in 2020.

Time To Move For Neighbors As Robins AFB Goes Big On Solar

Robins Air Force Base in south Macon is about to go in for solar power in a big way. That means many people have had to sell their homes and move to...

December 23, 2019
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By:
  • Liz Fabian Center for Collaborative Journalism
Yellow front end loaders are dwarfed by piled coal in front of Georgia Power's Plant Scherer in Juliette.

Georgia Power Rate Hike Approved By Public Service Commissioners

Starting next year, Georgia Power customers will see an average increase of $6 a month on their power bills. That’s just one of a couple of increases...

December 18, 2019
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By:
  • Ross Terrell

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Shedding Light On Georgia Power's Rate Hike

Tuesday on Political Rewind, the Public Service Commission approved a rate hike request today from Georgia Power, but it was not as much money as the...

December 17, 2019
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By:
  • Bill Nigut
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