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The Georgia Public Service Commission will make two major decisions next month, on a proposal to temporarily freeze Georgia Power’s rates and on the utility’s long-term plan to make and deliver energy. Hearings on both issues this week got heated at times.
The rate freeze proposal comes after the commission approved six bill increases implemented over the last three years. Georgia Power was due to submit another rate plan by July 1. Company officials testified on Thursday that they were facing a revenue shortfall, meaning they’d likely have requested another rate hike.
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