{"id":4663,"date":"2013-07-11T07:08:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T11:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=4663"},"modified":"2013-07-11T07:09:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T11:09:14","slug":"solar-may-win-today-at-the-georgia-psc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/solar-may-win-today-at-the-georgia-psc.html","title":{"rendered":"Solar may win today at the Georgia PSC"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\nThere’s still time to call in and make your voice heard,\r\n(800) 282-5813.\r\nThe swing vote is\r\nthe Commissioner\r\n\r\nfor south Georgia, H. Doug Everett<\/a>.\r\nSolar power may win over Georgia Power today.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nGreg Bluestein and Kristi E. Swartz wrote for the AJC yesterday,\r\n\r\nSolar supporters see rare loss on horizon for Georgia Power<\/a>,\r\n

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\r\nIf Georgia Power says it needs something, it usually gets it. Over\r\nthe years, state regulators have cleared the way for the utility to\r\nland new power plants, more transmission lines and rate increases,\r\noften without much heated debate.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nWalter C. Jones\r\nwrote for jacksonville.com yesterday,\r\n\r\nPSC likely to require Georgia Power to double its reliance on solar power Thursday<\/a>\r\n

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\r\nThe state’s largest electric utility is almost certain to be\r\nrequired Thursday to double its access to solar power when the\r\nPublic Service Commission votes on Georgia Power Co.’s 20-year plan.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nLate Wednesday, Stan Wise, the member of the five-man commission\r\nmost resistant to requiring a specified amount of solar energy,\r\nreleased the wording of technical details he’ll propose on how solar\r\ngeneration will be added.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n“I intend to offer the attached motion in the special\r\n[meeting] tomorrow. The rationale for which I will explain at that\r\ntime,” he said in a one-line email to reporters with the\r\nattached motion.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nHe is offering an amendment to a motion Commissioner Lauren\r\n“Bubba” McDonald will make requiring Georgia Power to\r\nadd about 250 megawatts of solar generation.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nWise’s announcement essentially means he’s supporting McDonald’s\r\nidea. While the other commissioners haven’t announced how they\r\nintend to vote, none have voiced Wise’s often repeated reservation.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nBubba McDonald’s editorial in Online Athens yesterday,\r\n\r\nMcDonald: The path to providing clean, reliable, affordable energy<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nDuring the last week, I have received more than 500 letters from\r\nGeorgians concerned about the possibility of Georgia going the way\r\nof California with the vote the Georgia Public Service Commission\r\nwill make this morning.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

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