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System operator Gerald Snodgrass sits in front of the large electronic mimic board (left), which displays the status of transmission lines and substations around the state, and a smaller screen (right) which shows the Southern Company load flow from Mississippi to the Florida panhandle, at the Georgia Transmission Control Center at Georgia Power Thursday, June 17, 2010.

Gerald Snodgrass sits in front of the large electronic mimic board (left), which displays the status of transmission lines and substations around the state, and a smaller screen (right) which shows the Southern Company load flow from Mississippi to the Florida panhandle, at the Georgia Transmission Control Center at Georgia Power.

Detail of the electronic mimic board, which displays the status of transmission lines and substations around the state, at the Georgia Transmission Control Center at Georgia Power Thursday, June 17, 2010.

Power systems coordinators Boykin Elliott (front center) and Ronny Maxwell (rear right) monitor the network power grid in metro Atlanta at the Georgia Transmission Control Center at Georgia Power. Heath Bridges (rear left) is with the Conyers TMC (Transmission Maintenance Center) and is job shadowing Elliott and Maxwell.

Invited guests, politicians and press tour the engineering floor at the Smart Grid Technology Center, which is under construction in Cobb County. The center will open in July.

At a reception at the Smart Grid Technology Center, which is under construction in Cobb County, left to right are Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, Sen. Saxby Chambliss, Gov. Sonny Perdue and John Rice, Vice Chairman GE. GE rolled out its touted Smart Grid Technology Center of Excellence in Cobb County June 3, 2010 with politicians including Gov. Sonny Perdue, Sen. Saxby Chambliss and Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle.

Gov. Sonny Perdue talks about the Smart Grid Technology Center at a reception at the center. From left is Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, Sen. Saxby Chambliss, and John Rice, vice chairman of GE. GE rolled out its touted Smart Grid Technology Center of Excellence in Cobb County June 3, 2010.

John Rice, Vice Chairman GE, talks about the Smart Grid Technology Center at a reception at the center which is under construction in Cobb County. From left is Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, Sen. Saxby Chambliss, and Gov. Sonny Perdue.

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System operator Gerald Snodgrass sits in front of the large electronic mimic board (left), which displays the status of transmission lines and substations around the state, and a smaller screen (right) which shows the Southern Company load flow from Mississippi to the Florida panhandle, at the Georgia Transmission Control Center at Georgia Power Thursday, June 17, 2010.

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