Voters urge judge to redraw utility regulator electoral map – WABE
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Black voters urged a judge to redraw Georgia's utility regulator electoral map. The Public Service Commission is deciding how much companies are allowed to bill millions of ratepayers.
A group of Black voters say it's time for a federal judge to redraw the electoral map for a five-member Georgia utility regulator commission, after state lawmakers failed to draw their own map in the 2023 session.
The state Public Service Commission approved a $1.8 billion rate increase requested by Georgia Power on Tuesday that embraced most of an agreement between the agency’s staff and the company presented last week.
Georgia Power customers will be charged more for electricity over the next several years after the Public Service Commission approved a $1.8 billion plan on Tuesday that critics call a sweetheart deal that boosts company profits and doesn’t go nearly far enough to support clean energy efforts like solar power and coal ash cleanup.