(APN) ATLANTA — A pro-consumer bill, HB 931, co-sponsored by State Rep. Karla Drenner (D-Avondale), calls for an end to the Nuclear Construction Cost Recovery (NCCR) surcharge on Georgia Power electric bills after March 2017. NCCR is a statewide surcharge that all Georgia Power residential and small business electricity customers pay every month. It is about eight percent […]
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Photograph by Glenn Carroll. With additional reporting by Atlanta Progressive News. (APN) ATLANTA — Nuclear Watch South (NWS) used Georgia Power’s own data to show that Georgia Power’s energy capacity is overbuilt and that Vogtle 3 and 4 are not needed, at a June 23, 2015 Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) hearing. The hearing was for the 12th […]
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(APN) ATLANTA — In the latest filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday, January 29, 2015, Westinghouse Electric and the other contractors building Units 3 and 4 at Plant Vogtle revealed that they will be delayed another eighteen months, pushing back reactor starts for Vogtle Unit 3 to 2019 and for Unit 4 to 2020. […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — The Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) voted unanimously Tuesday, December 17, 2013, to approve a compromise agreement between Georgia Power and the PSC staff. As previously reported by Atlanta Progressive News, Georgia Power’s original request was for a rate increase of 1.46 billion dollars. The original request also included a newly proposed “solar tax,” […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — The Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) has finished months of public and expert testimony on Georgia Power’s request for a 482 million dollar rate increase and an increase in the company’s guaranteed profit from 11.15 percent to 11.50 percent. Georgia Power is also asking for a surcharge of $5.56 per kilowatt on self-generated power […]
Read moreThis article first appeared on the Inter-Press Service website at: http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/06/in-southern-u-s-energy-equity-seen-as-path-to-sustainability/ ATLANTA, Georgia, Jun 24 2013 (IPS) – Advocates of the concept of “energy equity” have begun employing it in the southern United States to create a diverse coalition of citizens who might otherwise approach energy policy issues differently. It started when the Partnership for Southern Equity (PSE), an organisation that has looked […]
Read moreLiz Coyle, former 2009 candidate for City Council District 6, has moved on from her position at Pedestrians Educating Drivers about Safety (PEDS), and is now working as Communications Director of Georgia Watch. There, she is replacing Jonathan Shapiro, who was gone back to his previous job as a radio reporter for WABE. Coyle no longer lives in District 6, […]
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