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ATLANTA — Today, the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy submitted their post-hearing brief in Georgia Power’s 2026 Fuel Cost Recovery docket, detailing how the company seeks to escape any responsibility for rising energy costs and avoid making any adaptations to relieve the burden on ratepayers.
The brief strongly encourages the Public Service Commission to open an investigatory docket to create a fuel cost sharing mechanism between the Company and ratepayers. As just one example of how bad it is for customers to pick up the entirety of the fuel cost bill, Sierra Club, SACE and NRDC’s expert analysis showed that Georgia Power lost $152 million of customers’ money by running its coal plants uneconomically. The brief also supports several improvements to Georgia Power’s request that Staff achieved in a proposed settlement that’s before the Commission in this case.
In response, the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy released the following statement:
“Georgia Power wants to have its cake and eat it too,” said Adrien Webber, Sierra Club Georgia Chapter Director. “It wants to choose the most expensive, most uneconomic use of coal power; and it wants to keep advocates and the public in the dark about why it made a $152 million decision when more affordable options were available. The Public Service Commission must stop Georgia Power from ruling like kings over us, making decisions without any accountability. Georgia Power continues to make record profits, while Georgians foot the bill. It’s time Georgia Power pays its fair share of our fuel costs, and puts people over profits.”
