June 24, 2025 – (ATLANTA) Summer has arrived and the hot weather came quickly this year.
When the National Weather Service Issues heat advisories, Georgia Public Service Commission rules regarding disconnections of service kick in.
Per PSC Rule 515-3-2-.04 (02), “Seasonal Restrictions,” Georgia Power cannot disconnect electric service to a residential customer for non-payment if: “Prior to 8:00 A.M. on the date of the scheduled disconnection, a National Weather Service Heat Advisory or Excessive Heat Warning is in effect, or is forecast to be in effect by the National Weather Service, for the county in which the meter scheduled for disconnection is located.”
June 10, 2025 – (ATLANTA) The North American Numbering Plan Administrator has informed the Georgia Public Service Commission that residents in the 912 area code region will soon be seeing a second area code, in addition to 912.
Once new phone numbers for the 912 area code have been exhausted, some new users will be assigned a 565 area code. The 912 area code will remain in use. Anyone currently using the 912 area code will not see changes to their phone numbers or area codes.
Industry officials have determined that the 912 area code will exhaust its potential combinations by the second quarter of 2028. Industry guidelines maintain that an “overlay” area code should be in place at least six months before an in-use area code is exhausted. A specific date for the introduction of the 565 area code has not been set.
May 19, 2025 – (ATLANTA) At the urging of the five Commissioners, the Georgia Public Service Commission Public Interest Advocacy Staff and Georgia Power have come to an agreement where Georgia Power will not file an expected 2025 Rate Case. Instead, the company will freeze base rates at the current level for at least three years.
“This is a very big deal,” said PSC Chairman Jason Shaw. “Energy customers have seen unprecedented inflation in the energy sector across the U.S. My fellow Commissioners and I urged staff and Georgia Power to come to some agreement where base rates would not increase. This is nothing but good news for Georgia Power ratepayers. I look forward to delving into the details of this agreement as we conduct our public hearings.”
Feb. 7, 2025 – (ATLANTA) The Georgia Public Service Commission received Georgia Power’s filing for the utility’s 2025 Integrated Resource Plan on Jan. 31.
The process to approve the plan will include three public hearings: March 25-28, May 27-30 and a rebuttal hearing on June 23-25. The first hour of each day’s hearing will be reserved for public comment. Members of the public can also send comments via mail, email or via the PSC’s electronic portal, available on the homepage of the PSC’s website www.psc.ga.gov.
The IRP is filed every three years to set Geogia Power energy production. Although the plan is updated every three years, the plan is a 20-year outlook of energy production amounts and methods.
“My fellow Commissioners and I make every effort to hear from Georgian’s during the IRP process,” said PSC Chairman Jason Shaw. “As we weigh evidence presented to us by expert witnesses, engineers and energy analysts, we also read all comments sent by the public and listen to every public witness who takes the time to speak at the hearings. It is a vitally important part of the IRP process.”
January 23, 2025 – (ATLANTA) The Georgia Public Service Commission voted unanimously on Thursday to approve a new rule that allows Georgia Power to charge new data centers in a manner that will protect ratepayers from cost shifting.
The new rule approved Thursday derives from the Public Service Commission’s decision on the interim Integrated Resource Plan, unanimously approved by Commissioners in April 2024. That docket (55378) added extra capacity to Georgia’s power grid.
The new Georgia Power rule states that any new customers using more than 100 megawatts of energy can be billed using terms and conditions beyond those used for standard customers to address risks associated with these large-load users. In addition to site specific costs, the data centers would pay for costs incurred by upstream generation, transmission and distribution to these large-load power users as construction of the data centers progresses. This protects Georgia Power’s residential and other commercial/industrial customers.
