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.
At a luncheon talk to the Golden Isles Republican Women’s group on Thursday, Public Service Commissioner Tricia Pridemore cheered on the Trump administration’s deregulation efforts and discussed what she sees as young women’s unnecessary anxiety about climate change.
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.
Alicia Johnson will become the first Black woman elected to a statewide post in Georgia that isn't a judgeship. She takes office on the state Public Service Commission on Thursday.
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.
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.
Democrats Peter Hubbard and Alicia Johnston ousted incumbent Republicans Fitz Johnson and Tim Echols from the PSC. Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens won his second term easily.
Early voting ends this Friday in primary elections underway for a pair of Public Service Commission seats. All registered voters in Georgia are eligible to vote for each commissioner, no matter where they live.
