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We will find out November 3rd if Georgia voters connect the dots, and let's hope they do. Because only voters can stop what's happening. Georgia Power would be perfectly happy to blanket Georgia with data centers and gas plants. And be perfectly happen to profit off accelerated grid destruction too.

But the most important race? The two seats on the Georgia Public Service Commission. Don't like out of control data centers? Voters need to reelect Peter Hubbard who is already on the commission but is outvoted by the GOP majority, and elect Shelia Edwards to the seat Pridemore vacated.

Rep. Don Parsons chairs the House Energy & Utilities Committee and blocked solar balcony legislation - the sixth solar bill he's blocked, and he also chose to do nothing about data centers. Voters need to vote him out.

Senator Matt Brass killed Senate Bill 34 to require utilities to allocate data center costs. There he is smiling with Senator Greg Dolezal, both on the Regulated Industries committee where they chose to do nothing about data centers in the last two sessions. Voters need to vote them out .

If Georgians want lower power bills the first thing that needs to happen is Georgia Power's enormous profits need to be brought in alignment with industry norms. Same with data centers: controlling them won't happen as long as the party that caused the problem remains in charge.

The people of Georgia are furious at all the data centers coming here, taking land, ruining their quality of life, with Georgia Power in the background behind the failure of Republican legislators to pass legislation last session to protect them.

While expanding fossil fuels is difficult to see, and secret backroom deals is difficult to see, and commissioners taking money for votes is difficult to see, what is not difficult to see is...

The bottom line is that GA and the US are behind in clean energy production. China is producing 3 gigawatts of solar energy per day. Through their expansion of solar and battery storage, California is using 40% less natural gas to generate electricity than 2 years ago. Why can’t Georgia do the same?

However, Georgia is not taking advantage of this price drop, and we are in 47th place for residential solar. This is because of GA Power, who are expanding gas generation faster than any other state in the nation. Why gas? Because it makes profits. And of course, profits matter more than our planet.

The world is in a technological revolution, and that revolution is clean energy. The price of generating power from the sun and the wind has dropped below the price of generating power from gas and oil.

Fitz Johnson says Georgia’s leadership is working. But working for whom? 🤔

GA District 44 Representative Parsons is up for re-election this fall. If you’re worried about clean energy and your utility bill, vote instead for Danielle Bell.

Parsons blocked the use of balcony solar, claiming it would interfere with the grid. But Utah, Maine, Virginia, and other states have signed a plug-in solar bill into law. Germany has been using this technology for years. It makes no sense for GA not to do the same… unless you’re Georgia Power.

Representative Parsons blocked legislation that would empower consumers to use solar generation in their homes, making utility bills cheaper and lessening the use of the expensive nuclear power we use. Georgia is one of the sunniest states in the country, yet we are behind in solar production.

Representative Don Parsons claimed that nuclear fusion reactors were capable of generating power for the whole country. This kind of generation is far from ready. However, there is already a nuclear fusion reactor that can generate power… the sun. It’s a no-brainer… why aren’t we using that?

I will!! That’s excellent…except in Georgia where our monopoly utility is meeting data center demand with 90% gas and we’re paying the price for nuclear where there seem to be no lessons learned. Except at the ballot box. We’re winning there.

Want to know two big reasons data centers are rushing to Georgia, putting us in first place nationally for something nobody here wants?

Finally, in both 2024 and 2025 state legislators (think Burt Jones and Matt Brass) refused legislation to require data centers to pay for grid expansion costs Georgia Power is making. Problem solved: get rid of Burt Jones which happened yesterday (ya gone!) and get rid of Matt Brass Nov. 3.

Without a CUC, only industrials, manufacturers, data centers and Georgia Power have representation at the PSC. Thus, electricity for data center are rock bottom while residential utility bills are top five.

What are the conditions? In 2018 legislators removed all state and local taxes for data centers, and 2010 legislators eliminated the Consumer Utility Counsel leaving Georgia one of only five states to not have this critical role.

Georgians are fighting data centers across the state at county commission meetings, not realizing that state legislators have created the conditions through that are causing the problems.

The jig is up, and GA voters are realizing that they need better representation when it comes to their power bills. 3/5 commissioners are now gone, but we still need to ensure we choose the right candidates. Re-elect Peter Hubbard for his full term, and elect Shelia Edwards.

With June comes higher rates on your power. As summer comes to GA, so does a 4.6% rate increase on the first 650 kWh used in a month. But with hot temperatures, most customers will use more than that to power their air conditioning. This can cost ~15.5 cents per kWh used.

While all of that is bad, the wheels of accountability are turning in Georgia: three of the five legacy Republican commissioners involved in decades of Georgia Power rubber stamping are either gone, or are going. More on that to come.

And Hurricane Helene was the most destructive storm in state history, made supersize because of climate change - and scientists can now prove it through advancements in attribution science.

Because Georgia Power should not be building gas at a time of climate change. Even if they don't give two flips about climate change, and they don't, gas is far more expensive than solar + storage. That's why over 90% of grid capacity in 2025 was solar, wind & storage.

The other issue that makes tomorrow's vote so consequential is that it makes residential customers pay for a gas contract for Plant Wansley, a gas plant Georgia Power is for data centers, proving the lie that there is cost-shifting for data centers. How much is the contract? Redacted.

The vote tomorrow is the culmination of two Georgia Power filings requesting customer reimbursements for what they spent on fuel and what Hurricane Helene cost them to clean up the storm destruction. For the storm docket Georgia Power will raise rates 4.6% for residential

Where do we go from here? Plant Vogtle is built and can't be unbuilt. $11.1 billion was added to the rate base for 1,020 MWs of nuclear generation, a sum so awful that should have resulted in everyone's immediate firing. So we tell this story over and over and we fire them all ourselves.