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News Articles: Public Service Commission

FILE - Stickers lay on a table inside a polling place, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

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  • Elections

Votes trickle in for low-turnout Georgia Public Service Commission primaries

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.

June 09, 2025
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By:
  • Amber Roldan and
  • Georgia Recorder
Voters line up at the Rose Creek Public Library in Woodstock for the first day of early voting. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder

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  • Politics

Early voting is underway for Georgia PSC races. Here’s what you need to know

For the first time since 2020, Georgia voters have a chance to decide who will represent them on the Public Service Commission.

June 03, 2025
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By:
  • Amber Roldan and
  • Georgia Recorder
The five member Georgia Public Service Commission during the start of public hearings on Georgia Power’s 2025 Integrated Resource Plan Tuesday, May 27 in Atlanta.

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  • Environment

Staff for state regulators say they doubt Georgia Power's energy demand predictions

Georgia Power tells state regulators that booming data centers mean it can't quit coal. The regulators' own staff say the numbers don't add up.

May 27, 2025
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
The Georgia Public Service Commission at a February 2024 meeting Credit: Screen shot from PSC livestream

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  • News

Is the Public Service Commission really listening? Climate reporters look at the data

Is the Georgia Public Service commission actually listening to constituents who share strong opinions about Georgia Power's Integrated Resource Plan? 

May 22, 2025
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By:
  • Peter Biello
PSC presser

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  • News

Kemp supports energy rate freeze at state Capitol event Wednesday

Gov. Brian Kemp is throwing his support behind Georgia Power's energy rate freeze in the state.

May 21, 2025
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis
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
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

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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
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
An under construction cap to a coal ash pond at Georgia Power’s Plant Yates on Sept. 7, 2023. Plant Yates is one of five sites where Georgia Power intends to cap ponds where coal ash sits partially submerged in groundwater

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  • News

Environmental groups pushing to delay Georgia Power gas turbines project

Georgia Power should delay building three new “dual-fuel” turbines at Plant Yates near Newnan to allow time to consider potentially less expensive alternatives, an independent energy consultant said Wednesday.

July 25, 2024
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By:
  • Dave Williams
 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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  • Environment

State PSC poised to hear Georgia Power’s plan to increase fossil fuel use to power data centers

 

Environmental and consumer groups are urging state regulators not to approve Georgia Power’s plans to increase its use of fossil fuels to meet a rapidly growing industrial demand.

April 02, 2024
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap

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  • Climate

Georgia Power, PSC staff reach agreement on request for more generating capacity

Georgia Power and state energy regulators have agreed on a plan to increase the Atlanta-based utility’s electrical generating capacity including the construction of three new gas combustion turbines at Plant Yates near Newnan.

 

March 27, 2024
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By:
  • Dave Williams
The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled last November that the five-member PSC may continue holding elections statewide rather than by district.

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  • News

Georgia Public Service Commission elections postponed again by court case

There will be no PSC elections this year because a lawsuit challenging the system the state uses to elect commissioners is still pending, the secretary of state’s office announced Wednesday.

March 07, 2024
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By:
  • Dave Williams
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