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comments In August 2019, just weeks before Sen. Johnny Isakson, a third-term Georgia Republican, announced his surprise retirement following a kidney cancer diagnosis, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp shared the head table at a 4H fundraiser gala with two titans of Atlanta's finance scene: Jeffrey Sprecher, whose company, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), owns the New York Stock Exchange; and Sprecher's wife, Kelly Loeffler, at the time the CEO of a cryptocurrency joint venture between ICE, Microsoft and Starbucks. The fundraiser pulled in $200,000, and Kemp himself scored $18,100 from Loeffler....

  Caption The Plant Vogtle nuclear plant expansion is one of the focal points of the Public Service Commission District 4 runoff, pitting veteran Republican Commissioner Lauren "Bubba" McDonald against Democrat Daniel Blackman. Credit: John McCosh/Georgia Recorder Georgia Power’s overdue and over-budget Plant Vogtle nuclear plant expansion served as a handy punching bag for the challenger in a Tuesday debate as he took on a veteran of utility regulation ahead of the state’s Jan. 5 runoff election. Georgia’s twin U.S. Senate contests are consuming most of the country’s po...

More By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Georgia PSC adopts two levels of rates for broadband utility pole attachments EMCs will charge providers $1 in unserved areas, $27 in served areas ATLANTA — Georgia utility regulators today, Dec. 15, approved an offer by electric membership cooperatives (EMCs) to provide steep discounts to telecom providers that expand broadband service into rural areas of the state unserved by broadband. But a resolution th...

Dive Brief: Southeastern vertically-integrated utilities on Friday filed a proposal with North and South Carolina regulators that would form a centralized energy exchange market expected to serve about 50 million customers if approved. Duke Energy, Dominion Energy, Southern Company and the Tennessee Valley Authority are among the utilities that would participate in the market. The utilities plan to file the proposal with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission by the end of the year. Though utilities are calling it the creation of a market, “it’s really more of an energy exchange,” sai...

ATHENS -- Storage battery advances, not just additional collection panels, will fuel Georgia’s solar power future, a panel of experts told members of the Georgia General Assembly on Tuesday. A pair of Georgia Public Service (PSC) members along with Georgia Power’s Wilson Mallard, the utility’s director of renewable development, updated lawmakers on the state’s growth in solar power generation during the Biennial Institute for Georgia Legislators, a pre-legislative primer held at Athens’ The Classic Center.  The panelist highlighted Georgia’s rapid ascension as a solar power-gener...