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The Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA, Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 95–617, 92 Stat. 3117, enacted November 9, 1978) is a United States Act passed as part of the National Energy Act. It was meant to promote energy conservation (reduce demand) and promote greater use of domestic energy and renewable energy (increase ...
Community Choice Aggregation (CCA), also known as Community Choice Energy, municipal aggregation, governmental aggregation, electricity aggregation, and community aggregation, is an alternative to the investor-owned utility energy supply system in which local entities in the United States aggregate the buying power of individual customers within a defined jurisdiction in order to secure ...
MEAG is a nonprofit entity established in 1975, and 49 member communities distribute power produced by MEAG or procured on wholesale markets. [2][3] It owns 17.7% of Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Power Plant and 22.7% of Vogtle Electric Generating Plant; [4] 15.1% of the coal-fired Plant Scherer; and one combined-cycle gas-fired unit of Hal B. Wansley ...
1946 - North American Co. v. SEC. The Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 (PUHCA), [1] also known as the Wheeler-Rayburn Act, was a US federal law giving the Securities and Exchange Commission authority to regulate, license, and break up electric utility holding companies. It limited holding company operations to a single state, thus ...
Website. www.FERC.gov. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates the interstate transmission and wholesale sale of electricity and natural gas and regulates the prices of interstate transport of petroleum by pipeline. FERC also reviews proposals to build interstate ...
Georgia Power is the largest of the four electric utilities that are owned and operated by Southern Company. Georgia Power is an investor-owned, tax-paying public utility that serves more than 2.4 million customers in all but four of Georgia's 159 counties. [4] It employs approximately 9,000 workers throughout the state.
The combined transmission and distribution network is part of electricity delivery, known as the electrical grid. Efficient long-distance transmission of electric power requires high voltages. This reduces the losses produced by strong currents. Transmission lines use either alternating current (AC) or direct current (DC).
The Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, also known as Plant Vogtle (/ ˈvoʊɡəl / VOH-gəl), [4] is a four-unit nuclear power plant located in Burke County, near Waynesboro, Georgia, in the southeastern United States. With a power capacity of 4,536 megawatts, it is the largest nuclear power plant (as of 2013), the largest source of low ...