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ATLANTA -- Georgia Power Co. got the go-ahead last week to build and buy more electrical generation from the Georgia Public Service Commission, despite questions from environmentalists about the demand forecast driving the move and who say its unwise to let the company burn more fossil fuels.

A Georgia environmental organization is pushing against plans to postpone state utility regulator elections until 2025, arguing that further delay denies the rights of several million Georgia Power customers to elect members to a board that has approved several company proposals that have increased the financial burden on ratepayers. A former state Public Service Commission […] The post State PSC members could avoid voters for years as meter runs on Georgia Power rate hikes appeared first...

Georgia groups critical Republican plan to delay to 2025 and behold elections for Public Service Commission PSC that regulates Georgia Power.

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Voters in Georgia are losing the right to decide in a timely manner who goes and who stays on the state’s five-member Public Service Commission. The elections of the five

ATLANTA – Legislation setting a new election schedule for members of the Georgia Public Service Commission recently cleared the General Assembly.

Black voters who sued over Georgia’s elections for key utility regulators are appealing their case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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