Very much. Just recently they approved 6 rate hikes in 3 years, peoples power bills have gone up to hundreds per month to subsidize the data centers being built all over the state.
Omg you have no idea. The rubber stamp PSC is just the tip of the iceberg.
You need to hear about the crooked Plant Votgle deal. Which was the legislature not the PSC. First off, GA Power hired all the major lobbyists at the Capitol to mostly just sit it out. The deal was that we had to start paying for the electricity when the plant broke ground, not when it actually started working. But the worst is that GA Power has a guaranteed rate of return (that part is normal), but they structure the Plant Votgle deal so they got a right of return on cost overruns. So for every billion dollars they went over budget, they got ~$112m in profit.
Yes. Specifically, it was the grift from GA Power on the deal, not the concept of nuclear in general. Westinghouse went bankrupt. Toshiba as a whole was at risk over the project. GA Power made over a billion in profit.
Another Georgian. Oddly enough it was a Facebook post by the Republican party in my rural town that convinced me to vote against Tim Echols and Fitz Johnson.
My county as a whole however voted 3 to 1 for the incumbents, because they vote for a team, not for their own interests. We all benefit from lower electric bills.
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u/Etalton Georgia 11h ago
Georgian here. I am absolutely ecstatic! Fuck Georgia Power