{"id":1089,"date":"2012-02-21T10:15:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T15:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/does-georgia-power-own-the-sunshine.html"},"modified":"2012-02-21T10:15:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T15:15:22","slug":"does-georgia-power-own-the-sunshine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/does-georgia-power-own-the-sunshine.html","title":{"rendered":"Does Georgia Power own the sunshine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/6910585719\/in\/set-72157629403759835\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7205\/6910585719_479ddebbf9_m.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nWhile<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/02\/selling-solar-power-in-richmond-hill-lower-rates-for-customers-llc-2012-02-17.html\"><br \/>\nopening a solar site in Richmond Hill last Friday,<\/a> Dr. Sidney Smith said Georgia Power thinks it owns your sunshine:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIt&#8217;s a personal freedom issue and a personal rights issue.<br \/>\nAnd also it&#8217;s an issue of our future generations.<\/p>\n<p>\nBut I know that we&#8217;re going to come out on top&#8230;.<br \/>\nThe reason we&#8217;re going to come out on top.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re going to choose a higher power bill, or a lower power bill?<br \/>\nNow, I know you&#8217;re going to say I want a lower power bill.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Pjsb_46d8L4\"><br \/>\nthe video:<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pjsb_46d8L4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<small><br \/>\nDoes Georgia Power own the sunshine?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSouth Eastern Pathology Associates,<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSelling Power, Lower Rates for Customers LLC (LRCLLC),<br \/>\n<br \/>\nRichmond Hill, Bryan County, Georgia, 17 February 2012.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVideos by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.<br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n<p>\nAs Dr. Smith<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.macon.com\/2012\/02\/18\/1910712\/georgia-power-balks-at-senate.html\"><br \/>\ntold the AP a few days later:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWe have a property rights issue: Who owns the sunshine, and does a<br \/>\nproperty owner get to do anything he wants with it?&#8221; Smith said.<br \/>\n&#8220;Georgia Power says he can use it to grow grass, get a sunburn, but<br \/>\nhe&#8217;s not allowed to change it to electricity. That&#8217;s not correct.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/6916458545\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7054\/6916458545_db4f1717e4_m.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nAnd it goes beyond just generating your own power for<br \/>\nlower rates for yourself as a customer.<br \/>\nWhy not be able to sell it to somebody else who wants it, too?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThis is just the first step.<br \/>\nIn a way and a process that we&#8217;re ultimately going to be able<br \/>\nto sell power out of Bryan County back to Atlanta,<br \/>\nbringing dollars back from Atlanta to Bryan County.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And Lowndes County can do the same.<br \/>\nAtlanta wants our water?<br \/>\nSell them sunshine instead!<\/p>\n<p>\nSB 401 can help with that.<br \/>\nIf you want it to pass,<br \/>\nyou can<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/02\/help-pass-ga-senate-bill-401-to-facilitate-distributed-power-cogeneration.html\"><br \/>\nsign the petition<\/a><br \/>\nor<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/02\/georgia-power-opposes-sb-401-and-lower-rates-for-customers.html\"><br \/>\ncall your state senator.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While opening a solar site in Richmond Hill last Friday, Dr. Sidney Smith said Georgia Power thinks it owns your sunshine: It&#8217;s a personal freedom issue and a personal rights issue. And also it&#8217;s an issue of our future generations. But I know that we&#8217;re going to come out on top&#8230;. The reason we&#8217;re going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,40,14,8,18,2,20,312,2970,21,22,23,24],"tags":[2521,2975,8701,10,8702,8760,12,2973,2974,2972,2971],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-community","category-economy","category-georgia","category-georgia-power","category-government","category-law","category-lower-rates-for-customers-llc","category-lrclcc-2012-02-17","category-planning","category-politics","category-renewable-energy","category-solar","tag-17-february-2012","tag-bryan-county","tag-georgia","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-lake","tag-lower-rates-for-customers-llc","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lrcllc","tag-richmond-hill","tag-selling-power","tag-south-eastern-pathology-associates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}