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Warner Robins fixes gas leaks discovered in Public Service Commission report Listen to the content of this post: WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)— The Public Service Commission performed a comprehensive inspection of the Warner Robins Gas System from October 26 to October 29. During the inspection, they became aware of issues with multiple Grade 1 leak, with at least one existing for 10 months without being addressed. They also became aware of several Grade 2 leaks in the business distric...

Floor Action The House took up the following measure today: SB 4 - Drug Abuse Treatment and Education Programs; patient brokering; prohibit; definitions; exceptions; penalties; provide PASSED 151-0 The Senate took up the following measures today: SB 274 - Bartow County; homestead exemption; school district ad valorem taxes for educational purposes; provide PASSED 51-0 SB 275 - Bartow County School District Ad Valorem Taxes; homestead exemption; increase exemption amount PASSED 51-0 Committee Re...

Tri-County EMC to Expand Broadband in Rural Middle Georgia ; Tri-County EMC announces plans to expand broadband to 22,000 members across eight counties March 5, 2021 Atlanta, GA – Efforts to provide needed broadband service to Georgians took a step forward when Gov. Brian Kemp and PSC Commissioner Tim Echols made an announcement at Tri-County EMC’s headquarters earlier today. Gov. Kemp announced the formation of a new broadband provider in Middle Georgia, Tri-CoGo, which will provide high-...

The plan is to build a 1,600-mile fiber optic network, to provide broadband access to 22,000 Tri-County accounts across Central Georgia counties through Tri-CoGo

A total mindshift: Utilities replace gas peakers, old school demand response with flexible DERs Utility-customer cooperation can balance renewables variability with flexibility without using "blunt" demand response or natural gas. By: Herman K. Trabish Utilities and their customers are learning how their cooperation can provide mutual benefits by using the flexibility of distributed energy resources (DER) to cost-effectively balance the dynamics of the new power ...

Johnny Kampis As government officials discuss the affordability of broadband, some regulators are helping contribute to the problem by implementing sky-high pole attachment fees, the cost of which tend to be passed onto the end consumer. What are pole attachment fees? When an internet provider wants to access a pole owned by someone else – such as AT&T wanting to put its equipment on a pole owned by the local power provider – it has to pay a fee to gain that access. This has been standard o...

This is an op-ed by Tim Echols, a member of the Georgia Public Service Commission, an elected body that regulates the states telecommunications, electric and natural gas providers. When I was the lone grandchild of my paternal grandmother, I was her hobby — and that included her teaching me sewing skills. The old expression "a stitch in time saves nine" came from that era and simply means to fix problems when they are small to avoid larger problems in the future. Believe it or not, the adage ...

This article was originally published on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News. With electric vehicle (EV) sales booming across the US in […]

Analysis Analysis Based on factual reporting, although it incorporates the expertise of the author/producer and may offer interpretations and conclusions. Strengthening Communities and Shifting Power in Pursuit of a Just Transition 2019 cohort from the Just Energy Academy. Cosco Jones, a sustainability consultant, is pictured third from the left, second row. Photo from Partnership for Southern Equity How two grassroots, BIPOC-led coalitions are helping to democratize the climate justice space. ...

Share it Utilities ability to protect reliability in todays rapid transition to variable, distributed generation faces two key barriers and regulators help is needed to overcome them. Advanced demand response (DR) can use the flexibility of customer-owned technologies to meet the balancing challenges of the changing supply mix, regulators and utility executives agreed during an Oct. 20 symposium hosted by The Brattle Group. Utility pilots are revealing what works, but also showing how techn...