ATLANTA - Today, the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy submitted their post-hearing brief in Georgia Power’s 2026 Fuel Cost Recovery docket, detailing how the company seeks to escape any responsibility for rising energy costs and avoid making any adaptations to relieve the burden on ratepayers.
Valley Forge, PA - Today, the nation’s largest grid operator PJM held its capacity auction for the 2027/2028 Delivery Year. The auction ended when prices reached the price cap despite failing to procure enough capacity to meet the one-event-in-10-years reliability standard of a 20% reserve margin. PJM only managed to procure a 14.8% reserve margin.
ATLANTA - An hour before hearing testimony from the public and advocacy groups, the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) posted a settlement agreement approving Georgia Power’s plan to build the most expensive gas plants in the country, leaving Georgians to foot the bill.
MONTGOMERY, AL. - The Alabama Public Service Commission has approved a two-year rate freeze and large solar power projects for a proposed data center.
ATLANTA - Details on the costs incurred by Georgia Power to serve large load customers, namely data centers, will remain secret until 2028 following a vote Tuesday by the Public Service Commission (PSC). The commission voted unanimously in favor of a settlement agreement, referred to as the Stipulated Agreement, that doesn’t require the utility company to prove that data centers would result in lower rates for all customers or how the costs of bringing these facilities online will be socialized among existing billpayers.
ATLANTA - After another week of hearings on Georgia Power’s Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) and its rate case settlement proposal, Georgia residents are still left in the dark about the company’s plans to build fossil fuel plants, and worry about the future of their energy bills.
ATLANTA - Today, the Sierra Club, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, and the Natural Resources Defense Council submitted testimony in the Georgia Power rate case proceedings challenging the lack of transparency and procedural safeguards.