Drawing from eight years of speaking at Southern Company Stockholder meetings, and from that Homerville, Georgia explosion that destroyed Coffee Corner and sent three women to the hospital with third-degree burns, here’s a summary of the comments we filed with the Georgia Public Service Commission today. If you can’t go to the GA-PSC hearings tomorrow and the next day about the Georgia Power Integrated Resource Plan, you can also send a comment letter asking the PSC to stop Georgia Power locking in fossil fuels and make them get on with sun and wind pwoer on a smart grid.

1. Yes, fine AGL more than $2 million for that Homerville, GA explosion.
2. Require Georgia power to buy 12 gigawatts (GW) of solar power, not 1 GW.
3. Make Georgia Power pay to dispose of the coal ash it produced, properly on its own property.
4. How about make the companies that put mercury in the air to come down in our rivers pay for the costs to recreational fishing.
5. Stop throwing money down the Plant Vogtle nuclear hole.
6. Demand Georgia Power get on with wind power.

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