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Updated May 26, 2026Utility Landscape
Georgia Power Company
IOUApproximately 2.6 million customers across most of Georgia, excluding areas served by EMCs, municipal utilities, and Dalton Utilities
Georgia Power's 2022 Integrated Resource Plan was approved with conditions requiring retirement of coal units and expanded solar procurement. The company completed a significant general rate case settlement in 2023 establishing new base rates through the triennial review cycle, with the next triennial review anticipated in 2025-2026.
Atlanta Gas Light Company
IOUNatural gas distribution serving approximately 1.6 million customers across Georgia under a deregulated retail gas model established by the Natural Gas Competition and Deregulation Act
Operates as a pure distribution company under GPSC jurisdiction; retail gas commodity sold by competitive marketers. Recent focus on pipeline safety capital recovery through the Pipe Replacement Program (PRP) rider and infrastructure modernization cost tracking.
Colquitt Electric Membership Corporation
coopSouthwest Georgia, primarily Colquitt, Mitchell, and surrounding rural counties
One of Georgia's larger EMCs; EMCs in Georgia are generally exempt from GPSC rate jurisdiction but subject to federal and state cooperative regulations. Coordinates wholesale power supply through Seminole Electric and Georgia Transmission Corporation.
Walton Electric Membership Corporation
coopNortheast Georgia, serving portions of Walton, Barrow, Newton, and surrounding counties east of Atlanta
Among the largest EMCs in the U.S. by customer count; purchases wholesale power from Georgia System Operations and Oglethorpe Power Corporation. Active in distributed energy resource programs and broadband deployment through subsidiary WaltonConnect.
Dalton Utilities (Gas & Water)
muniCity of Dalton and portions of Whitfield County in northwest Georgia; provides electric, natural gas, water, and wastewater services
Operates as a municipally-owned multi-service utility largely outside GPSC electric jurisdiction. Has historically leveraged its position as a Beneficial Customer of Georgia Power under special industrial rate structures; monitored for electric supply arrangement changes amid IRP transitions.
Georgia Natural Gas (Southern Company Gas)
IOUOperates as a certified natural gas marketer under Georgia's deregulated retail gas framework, serving residential and commercial customers statewide
Subject to GPSC oversight as a certified marketer under the Gas Competition Rules rather than traditional rate-of-return regulation. GPSC periodically reviews marketer compliance, customer switching rules, and consumer protection standards applicable to Georgia Natural Gas and competing marketers.
Key Issues
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Vogtle Unit 3 & 4 cost recovery and prudency review: Following the completion of Plant Vogtle's two new AP1000 nuclear units — the first new U.S. nuclear construction in decades — the GPSC continues to scrutinize Georgia Power's ongoing cost recovery through the Nuclear Construction Cost Recovery tariff (NCCR) and related financing order compliance, with prudency challenges from intervenors regarding construction overruns exceeding $17 billion.
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2025-2026 Triennial Rate Review: Georgia Power is subject to a triennial earnings review cycle; the next proceeding is expected to examine whether current authorized ROE and rate structures remain appropriate given post-Vogtle capital structure changes, load growth from data center and EV demand, and inflation-driven O&M increases.
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Data center and hyperscale load growth straining IRP assumptions: Unprecedented industrial and data center load growth in metro Atlanta and north Georgia corridors is pressuring Georgia Power to revise its demand forecasts, potentially triggering an expedited IRP amendment or supplemental resource solicitation before the next scheduled 2025 IRP update cycle concludes.
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Integrated Resource Plan renewable procurement and coal retirement timelines: The GPSC-approved 2022 IRP required retirement of Plant Bowen and Plant Scherer coal units on specific schedules; ongoing proceedings monitor compliance with solar procurement targets, battery storage contracting, and whether accelerated retirements require supplemental capacity filings.
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Natural gas marketer consumer protection and price volatility oversight: Following extreme winter weather events, the GPSC has increased scrutiny of retail natural gas marketer pricing practices, contract transparency, and low-income customer protections under Georgia's deregulated gas framework, with potential rulemaking to update marketer certification standards.
Upcoming
Estimated deadline for Georgia Power to file updated demand-side and load forecast data in connection with the 2025-2026 Triennial Rate Review docket; GPSC Staff and intervenors expected to submit discovery requests and testimony schedules through summer 2026.
Estimated GPSC open meeting at which commissioners are anticipated to take up outstanding Vogtle NCCR prudency intervenor motions and set a procedural schedule for any evidentiary hearing on construction cost disallowance claims.
Estimated deadline for Georgia Power's supplemental IRP resource solicitation update, reflecting revised load forecasts driven by data center growth; GPSC Staff review of RFP results and any proposed power purchase agreement approvals expected in Q4 2026.
Estimated GPSC evidentiary hearing (date provisional) on Triennial Rate Review, including review of Georgia Power's earned return, capital expenditure justification for grid hardening and transmission upgrades, and evaluation of proposed changes to residential rate design structures.
Commissioner Watch
View all ↗Incumbent Commissioner Tim Echols lost his re-election bid to Democrat Alicia Johnson in the November 2025 special election and departed the PSC on January 1, 2026.
Incumbent Commissioner Fitz Johnson lost his re-election bid to Democrat Peter Hubbard in the November 2025 special election and departed the PSC on January 1, 2026.
Dr. Alicia Johnson won the District 2 special election in November 2025, becoming the first Black woman elected to statewide office in Georgia and the first Democrat on the PSC in nearly 20 years.
Peter Hubbard won the District 3 special election in November 2025, joining Alicia Johnson to flip both Republican-held seats and return Democrats to the Georgia PSC for the first time since 2007.
Staff
52| Name | Title | Phone |
|---|---|---|
| Tom Krause | Public Information Officer | (404) 656-2316 |
| Jamie Barber | Director, Energy Efficiency/Renewable Energy Unit | (404) 651-5958 |
| Tom Bond | Director of Utilities | (404) 656-4501 |
| Leon Bowles | Unit Director, Telecommunications | (404) 656-4501 |
| Reece McAlister | Executive Director | (404) 656-2141 |
| Lynn Page | HR Director | (404) 656-4501 |
| Jane E. Stroeva | Fiscal and Budget Officer | (404) 656-4501 |
| Sallie Tanner | Executive Secretary | (404) 463-7747 |
| Michelle Thebert | Director, Facilities Protection Unit | (404) 463-2765 |
| Robert Trokey | Director, Electric Utility Regulation | (404) 656-4549 |
| Nancy Tyer | Unit Director, Natural Gas | (404) 657-8767 |
| Monique P. Andrews | Consumer Affairs Manager | (404) 463-8720 |
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