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Docket #: 44160 & 44161
Agenda Item: 2022 IRP
Date of Hearing: July 21, 2022
Example Comment (copy and paste):
With your vote on the 2022 IRP, Docket # 44160 & 44161, you can send a message that Georgia is ready to embrace clean renewable energy and protect our drinking water resources.
In the IRP, Georgia Power has proposed decommissioning the last coal units at Plant Wansley by this August. And the utility also proposed closing two coal units at Plant Bowen in Bartow County by the end of 2027. The PSC should not keep Plant Bowen’s coal units open any longer.
The IRP also proposed to excavate and more safely store coal ash at Plant Wansley in Heard County. But Georgia Power still plans to permanently leave approximately 35 million tons of toxic coal ash in unlined pits where it mixes with groundwater at 4 plants situated along the Coosa, Chattahoochee and Ocmulgee rivers. Leaving coal ash in groundwater violates federal law.
The environmental risks and economic indicators are clear: Georgia Power and the PSC need to move on from coal and focus on clean, renewable energy production. Georgia Power also needs to heed federal law and abandon its inadequate plans to leave coal ash in our groundwater. Adopt these important elements in the final 2022 IRP.
Agenda Item: 2022 IRP
Date of Hearing: July 21, 2022
Example Comment (copy and paste):
With your vote on the 2022 IRP, Docket # 44160 & 44161, you can send a message that Georgia is ready to embrace clean renewable energy and protect our drinking water resources.
In the IRP, Georgia Power has proposed decommissioning the last coal units at Plant Wansley by this August. And the utility also proposed closing two coal units at Plant Bowen in Bartow County by the end of 2027. The PSC should not keep Plant Bowen’s coal units open any longer.
The IRP also proposed to excavate and more safely store coal ash at Plant Wansley in Heard County. But Georgia Power still plans to permanently leave approximately 35 million tons of toxic coal ash in unlined pits where it mixes with groundwater at 4 plants situated along the Coosa, Chattahoochee and Ocmulgee rivers. Leaving coal ash in groundwater violates federal law.
The environmental risks and economic indicators are clear: Georgia Power and the PSC need to move on from coal and focus on clean, renewable energy production. Georgia Power also needs to heed federal law and abandon its inadequate plans to leave coal ash in our groundwater. Adopt these important elements in the final 2022 IRP.
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