Don’t do it!

Hi everyone, It’s October and that means yet another set of rate increases are imminent at the Georgia PSC. I went to the public comment period to speak out against these proposals. GA Power filed an enormous $2.9 billion revenue increase request in June which...

Georgia’s 2022 Integrated Resource Plan: A Disaster

On July 21st, 2022, a state agency known as the Georgia Public Service Commission (Ga PSC) voted unanimously to approve Georgia Power’s long-term energy plan. The Ga PSC is composed of five elected officials who are responsible for regulating energy in Georgia to...

How You Can Avoid Gas Price Spikes This Winter

On Friday I received an email from my natural gas provider offering me an early bird “discount” of 56.9¢ per therm for a one-year contract. They may call it a discount, but it’s higher than the .40¢ or so per therm offered in years past. Since natural gas prices are...
Plant Vogtle Part 2

Plant Vogtle Part 2

Two weeks ago I wrote a blog I called “Georgia’s Shame” outlining facts about the only nuclear plant under construction in the U.S. which is being built in Waynesboro Georgia. Those facts include a construction timeline that is 6 years behind schedule and costs that...
Plant Vogtle: Georgia’s Shame

Plant Vogtle: Georgia’s Shame

Last Monday the Atlanta Journal & Constitution had this headline: “Georgia Power now says Vogtle nuclear ‘likely’ to bust deadline” Once again the only nuclear power plant under construction in the United States will not meet its expected in-service date. Plant...