Sent in PDF via email today.
August 2, 2017
To:
Georgia Public Service Commission
244 Washington Street, SW
Atlanta, GA 30334-9052
gapsc@psc.state.ga.us
Re:
Electric cars and solar power are here now; South Carolina cancels
its nuclear project
Dear
Public Service Commissioners and Staff,
Since
my letter of July 23, 2017, asking you to stop cost overruns for
Plant Vogtle and to require Georgia Power again to buy more solar
power,
there have been major developments that further indicate the
desirability of these actions.
Tesla
is now shipping its Model 3, which many consider the Model T of
the electric car industry, affordable not just to executives, but
to the masses. New York City changed in thirteen years from all
but one horse-drawn carriages to all but one automobiles in its
Easter Parade: 1900 to 1913,
and not much longer for the rest of the country, after the Ford
Model T shipped in 1908.
We’re
well past 1900 in the electric vehicle revolution, and that is a
rapidly growing market for solar panels on business and house
roofs.
In
The Hill
yesterday:
South
Carolina Electric & Gas Co. (SCE&G) and state-run Santee
Cooper both said Monday they would suspend their plan to build two
nuclear reactors at the V.C. Summer power plant northwest of
Columbia.
The
companies cited Continue reading →
