Two races for the Public Service Commission are the statewide races that will be at the top of Georgia’s election ballot this year . . .
Georgia Power’s Plant Vogtle nuclear reactors are already facing cost overruns potentially as high as $900 million, along with an eight-month delay in completion . . .
Georgia Power says it will cut the rates it charges customers to recover the fuel costs associated with generating electricity, a move spurred by dropping demand for electricity and reduced costs of natural gas . . .
The PSC votes to approve a pipeline management deal that Atlanta Gas Light negotiated with one of its own subsidiaries, but allows the gas company to keep the details of the agreement from public view . . .
Newt Gingrich’s December surge flares out as he drops to a fourth-place finish in the Iowa GOP caucuses . . .
The Public Service Commission will dip into the universal service fund to help elderly gas customers pay their heating bills this winter . . .
PSC member Tim Echols says he will not change his vote on a proposal to raise Georgia Power’s residential rates to provide a subsidy for two solar energy companies . . .
Tim Echols, the swing vote on a PSC proposal to raise Georgia Power’s rates and provide a subsidy to solar energy firms, says he is reconsidering his earlier vote against the proposal . . .
Economic forecasters from the University of Georgia and Georgia State University look at the state’s near-term economic picture, and it is not a pretty one . . .
