Leaders of the Atlanta Tea Party are challenging Southern Co. subsidiary Georgia Power over the monopoly's reluctance to increase its use of solar power, the ballooning costs of building a new nuclear power plant and even its legal right to monopoly status.

NPR: Tea Party Targeting Southern Co. Power Monopoly

Among those utilities in the Southeast that school their workers at the Utility Technology Association: Georgia Power, Alabama Power and Mississippi Power, which are part of Southern Co. as well as Cobb EMC and the Tennessee Valley Authority.

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