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Vote today: GA PSC Election 2025-06-17

Concerned about solar on agricultural land? Want more solar on rooftops and parking lots? Tired of natural gas pipelines and Liquid Natural Gas (LNG)? Want to stop wasting money on nuclear? Don’t want higher electric rates?

Today is Primary Election Day for the Georgia Public Service Commission (GA-PSC).

Any registered Georgia voter can vote, even though the two districts up for election include parts of Atlanta, Augusta, and Savannah, and nothing in south central Georgia. If that seems odd to you, it also does to the people who have been suing about it for around five years, which is why this is the first PSC election in that time.

For sample ballots and where to vote, go to GA My Voter page:
https://mvp.sos.ga.gov/

[GA PSC Election, Vote Today, July 17, 2025, Two Districts, All Georgia Registered Voters]
GA PSC Election, Vote Today, July 17, 2025, Two Districts, All Georgia Registered Voters

Here are the candidates. For more about them, see Emily Jones, WABE, Grist, The Current, June 10, updated June 16, 2025, Meet the Ga. Public Service Commission candidates. Continue reading →

Nuclear reactor Vogtle 1 at August shut down

Nuclear really more reliable than wind or solar? What’s with the unscheduled shutdowns?

Colin McClelland reported for Bloomberg 21 April 2011, U.S. Nuclear Output Falls as Vogtle Reactor in Georgia Shuts

U.S. nuclear-power output remained near a 4½-year low for a fourth day as the Vogtle 1 reactor in Georgia shut down unexpectedly, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said.

Power generation nationwide decreased 538 megawatts to 71,781 megawatts from yesterday, or 71 percent of capacity, the smallest amount since Oct. 22, 2006, according to an NRC report today and data compiled by Bloomberg. Twenty-nine of the nation’s 104 reactors were offline.

Southern Co. (SO)’s 1,109-megawatt Vogtle 1 reactor automatically tripped offline yesterday at 5:34 p.m. when it was at full power. The cause is under investigation, the NRC said.

The shutdown was ironically two days after an NRC public meeting “to discuss Plant Vogtle’s annual safety evaluation and assessment.”

That would be the same location where, according to Tice Brashear back in 18 March 2009: Continue reading →