To Avoid Price Shocks, We Must Meet Energy Needs
This guest post, written by SACE consultant Susan Glickman, originally appeared in the Sunshine State News, 22-Aug-12. Read the post and view the comments here. The energy challenges of the 21st century demand…
How Not to Set Electricity Rates
Clare McGuire, former attorney for the Georgia Public Service commission and Georgia Watch, contributed to this post. Electricity rate setting is a hornet's nest full of accounting, policy-making and politics. People love…
Energy Efficiency: The New Energy Superhero of the Southeast
SACE recently finished its review of 2011 energy efficiency impacts for the major utilities in Georgia, Florida, the Carolinas and Tennessee. We are proud to announce that all major utilities are now offering…
Duke Leadership Hearing Veers Into Substance
This blog was written by John D. Wilson, former Deputy Director for Regulatory Policy at the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.
The Devil We Know: Visionary Jim Rogers Meets Southeastern Skepticism
This blog was written by John D. Wilson, former Deputy Director for Regulatory Policy at the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.
Duke Energy adds neighborhood energy efficiency program in South Carolina
Last fall we wrote about Progress Energy's successful implementation of its Neighborhood Energy Saver program. We are happy to announce that this program has already inspired change in our region: as of last…
Just Another Two Billion Dollars Between Friends
Under the leadership duo of Bill Sansom's tenure as the Tennessee Valley Authority's Board Chairman and Tom Kilgore's years as CEO, we have witnessed some of the largest financial mistakes ever made in the…
Largest Remaining Investor Still Stuck In Plant Washington Boondoggle
At the February 16 meeting of its Board of Directors, Snapping Shoals EMC had a chance to do the right thing and end its involvement in developing two new coal-fired power plants…
Georgia Power Finishes 2011 with a Round of Applause
This blog was written by Natalie Mims and Jeannie McKinney. A little bit of congratulating is in order for one of the Southeast’s largest investor-owned electric utilities. As we’ve said time and…
Victory: Cobb EMC Pulls Out of Coal-fired Power Plants
Late on the evening of January 24, the board of directors at Cobb EMC made an unprecedented about-face, and voted to freeze the EMC’s funding for two coal-fired power plants: Plant Washington…