State Regulators Consider Georgia Power’s Request To Raise Rates

Georgia Power needs to raise rates, company spokesman John Kraft said, to maintain its grid, to comply with coal ash cleanup rules and to replenish its storm restoration fund.  

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A new round of hearings begins Monday on Georgia Power’s proposal to raise its rates. State regulators will hear from experts and advocates on the company’s request to charge residential customers about $10 more a month on their electric bills; businesses would see rates go up, too.

At a town hall he hosted in his church in late October, the Rev. Timothy McDonald of First Iconium Baptist Church in East Atlanta said he already hears from people about their power bills.

“The biggest request that most ministers get for help and assistance is for utility bills,” he said.