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Dear Official,

I am writing to urge you to support Senate Bill 34, a crucial piece of legislation that will help reduce the financial burden on Georgia Power ratepayers.The language of Senate Bill 34 requires commercial data centers to be responsible for all charges – including transmission line charges – for powering their facilities. Without this bill, the average ratepayer, both commercial and residential alike, will be stuck paying for energy that they didn’t use.
In December, 2022, the Public Service Commission (PSC) approved a rate plan for Georgia Power that allowed phased in rate increases over 2023, 2024, and 2025. Customers saw a 2.5% increase in January 2023, followed by a 4.5% increase in 2024, and another 4.5% increase scheduled for 2025.
Unless this legislature takes action, this trend is not going to stop.
Please, as your constituent, I’m asking you to use your authority granted to you as a member of this legislature by our state Constitution, to ensure I am not seeing higher energy costs because of these large data centers I’ll likely never see a benefit from.
Thank you for your attention to this important issue.
I am writing to urge you to support Senate Bill 34, a crucial piece of legislation that will help reduce the financial burden on Georgia Power ratepayers.The language of Senate Bill 34 requires commercial data centers to be responsible for all charges – including transmission line charges – for powering their facilities. Without this bill, the average ratepayer, both commercial and residential alike, will be stuck paying for energy that they didn’t use.

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Senate Bill 34 aims to exclude the costs incurred by commercial data centers from Georgia Power rate adjustments, shifting the responsibility for these costs— including transmission line charges— to the data centers themselves. The bill defines commercial data centers as those with a peak demand of 100 megawatts or more, leaving smaller data centers (under 100 megawatts) still covered by other Georgia Power customers. While AFP Georgia advocates for all data centers to bear the costs of their power usage, we believe Senate Bill 34 is a positive step toward easing the financial burden on Georgia Power ratepayers.