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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 ...
Lefties and libertarians unite against common foe: Georgia Power
Politics makes strange, if fleeting, bedfellows. But now a fling between tea party loyalists and green groups suddenly has the makings of a permanent union.Emboldened by wins over business leaders and the state’s most powerful utility, the odd allies formed the Green Tea Coalition this month with plans to unite ...
Energy prices, politics create uncertain climate for Southern, utilities
Before the recession ground the state’s growth to a halt, Southern Co. made the decision to add two large nuclear reactors at Georgia Power’s Plant Vogtle. The thinking was that the $14 billion reactors, scheduled to come online in 2017 and 2018, would generate enough electricity to support whatever population ...
Vogtle nuclear project could face more delays
State utility regulators were warned Tuesday of possibly more delays in bringing two new nuclear reactors on line, despite recent assurances from Georgia Power executives that they weren’t expecting any. Meanwhile, a financial analyst for the state said the nuclear expansion is not the most cost effective option for Georgia ...
Report: Vogtle expansion smoother for now
Construction at Georgia Power’s Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion project is moving more smoothly, with reactors likely to start producing electricity at the new target dates of 2017 and 2018, the project’s independent monitor said. But further delays in building critical parts for the reactors could cause the schedule to slip ...
State’s oversight of radioactive materials found lacking
Federal nuclear regulators have placed a state unit that oversees radioactive materials in Georgia on probation for failing to correct problems that eventually could pose a public threat. The problems relate mainly to inspections and oversight to ensure proper licensing and record-keeping among medical, industrial and other users of radioactive ...
Atlanta Gas Light to replace old pipeline
State utility regulators approved Atlanta Gas Light’s plan to replace 756 miles of decades-old plastic pipe. Customer bills will go up to cover the $275 million project, starting with a 48-cent surcharge this fall, with similar amounts added to that in 2015 and 2016. Atlanta Gas Light will replace so-called ...
Turner Broadcasting System names president
Longtime Turner Sports chief David Levy has been named president of Atlanta-based Turner Broadcasting System. The move is the latest in a number of executive and management shuffles at Turner, which owns cable news channels CNN and HLN and highly rated networks including TNT, TBS and Cartoon Network. Levy’s expanded ...
New customers boost AT&T’s second quarter revenue
More than 2 million new consumers signed up for AT&T’s wireless or high-speed broadband service between April and June this year, helping to lift the company’s revenue 1.6 percent to $32.1 billion. But higher operating expenses caused second-quarter profits to dip slightly to $3.82 billion, or 71 cents per share, ...
Battle likely over Georgia Power’s profits
It likely will be the most hotly contested part of Georgia Power’s rate hike proposal. But, if approved, it would be only a small portion of customers bills, analysts say. The utility wants to increase the amount of profit it’s allowed to make to 11.5 percent, up from 11.15 percent. ...
Georgia Power takes heat for Vogtle costs, delays
Frustrated utility regulators grilled Georgia Power executives about cost increases at the Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion project Thursday, hinting they might consider capping how much the utility can recoup from ratepayers. “The trend is delay and overruns … is there any reason to believe that this trend is not going ...
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