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Kristi E. Swartz
Kristi Swartz covers utilities and telecom as a business reporter for the AJC. She was hired to the business desk in 2008 and covered media, tech, telecom, utilities and the business of sports before spending two years on digital's ""breaking news"" team.
Latest from Kristi E. Swartz
Georgia Power’s rate request moves forward
Georgia Power officials on Wednesday defended the company’s request to increase the amount of profit its shareholders are allowed to make as part of its request to collect $482 million from customers through 2016. Collecting the additional money would keep the company financially strong, said Ron Hinson, Georgia Power’s chief ...
Georgia Power rate hike case may be delayed
Georgia Power may be asked to delay its request for a 6 percent rate increase until next year. State utility regulators were scheduled to take up Georgia Power’s proposed $482 million rate hike Tuesday, but the five-member panel agreed to postpone the hearings for one day. Commissioner Bubba McDonald said ...
EEOC suit alleges Georgia Power violated Americans With Disabilities Act
A small group of former Georgia Power employees and job applicants have accused the utility of violating the federal Americans With Disabilities Act, according to a lawsuit filed Monday.According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Georgia Power told some employees they could no longer work for the utility despite ...
Feds cite Georgia Power in plant mishap
Federal investigators found 17 safety violations at Georgia Power plant near Cartersville following a generator explosion in April, the government said Friday. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposes a $119,000 for the violations, which it said were connected to the April incident at coal-fired Plant Bowen. The explosion — ...
OSHA cites Georgia Power for 17 serious safety violations following Bowen explosion
Federal investigators found 17 serious safety violations at Georgia Power’s Plant Bowen following a generator explosion in April, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Friday. OSHA has proposed fining Georgia Power $119,000 for the violations. “Fortunately, no one was injured or killed as a result of this explosion,” said ...
PSC dumps donation to anti-abortion group
A state utility regulator formally dropped his proposal to send a $10,000 settlement from a telephone company to an anti-abortion Christian charity to which he and a second regulator are connected. Georgia Public Service Commissioner Doug Everett also asked Attorney General Sam Olens to clarify why the proposal to give ...
Georgia’s solar debate intensifies
Debate is heating up over how Georgia should expand its fledgling solar industry. One issue is whether the state should treat solar as it does other power sources — allowing it to be sold only by a designated regulated monopoly — or open the playing field to multiple suppliers. The ...
PSC members float plan to aid anti-abortion group
Two state utility regulators backed away Thursday from a proposal to send a $10,000 settlement from a telephone company to an anti-abortion Christian charity to which they’re connected. The decision by Public Service Commission members Doug Everett and Tim Echols came after Attorney General Sam Olens’ office told them such ...
Southern Company, a lobbying powerhouse, fights new carbon rules
President Barack Obama’s promised assault on climate change begins in earnest this month with the roll-out of rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions by new power plants.It’s one of the most divisive issues in Washington, and perhaps no one is as financially invested in the outcome as Southern Co. The Atlanta-based ...
AT&T opens innovation hub at Georgia Tech
AT&T officially opened its high-tech innovation center at Georgia Tech on Tuesday, a collaboration that will put engineers and executives together to dream up and market new technology. This is AT&T’s fourth Foundry. The center, at Georgia Tech’s Technology Square campus in Midtown Atlanta, is the latest example of Atlanta’s ...
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