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ATLANTA Georgia utility regulators today, Dec. 15, approved an offer by electric membership cooperatives (EMCs) to provide steep discounts to telecom providers that expand broadband service into rural areas of the state unserved by broadband.
But a resolution the state Public Service Commission (PSC) adopted unanimously also will increase fees the EMCs are allowed to charge providers for attaching broadband technology to utility poles in areas already served by broadband.
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Southeastern vertically-integrated utilities on Friday filed a proposal with North and South Carolina regulators that would form a centralized energy exchange market expected to serve about 50 million customers if approved.
Duke Energy, Dominion Energy, Southern Company and the Tennessee Valley Authority are among the utilities that would participate in the market. The utilities plan to file the proposal with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission by the end of the year.
Though utilities are calling it the creation of a market, “it’s really more of an energy exchange,” said Kate Konschnik, director of the Climate and Energy Program at Duke University. “So on the one hand, it is pretty modest. On the other hand, it s interesting that a lot of the utilities want to do this right now” in the midst of proposals in the Carolinas calling to open up the markets to more competition, she said.
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A pair of Georgia Public Service (PSC) members along with Georgia Power’s Wilson Mallard, the utility’s director of renewable development, updated lawmakers on the state’s growth in solar power generation during the Biennial Institute for Georgia Legislators, a pre-legislative primer held at Athens’ The Classic Center.
The panelist highlighted Georgia’s rapid ascension as a solar power-generating state over the last decade. Solar was “virtually nonexistent” as an energy source in Georgia in 2012, Georgia Power’s Mallard said, with sun power coming only from panels installed on residential and commercial business rooftops. In 2020, solar is on pace to contribute 2,600 megawatts to the state’s energy grid.