Georgia Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company, is retiring 2, 000 megawatts of fossil-fired generation.
Southern Company subsidiary Georgia Power at first refused to let SecurAmerica bid for a contract earlier this year.
State law gives electric utilities, including Georgia Power, exclusive rights to serve customers in designated areas of the state.
Under state law, Georgia Power's customers must pay for the nuclear plant unless regulators find its costs were unreasonable.
The commission is currently debating whether to approve Georgia Power's latest plan for meeting the state's long-term energy needs.
Georgia Power said some 9, 600 customers were still without power Thursday morning, down from about 14, 000 a day earlier.
Georgia Power said some 9, 600 cusottmers were still without power Thursday morning, 2, 500 of them in the state's hard-hit northwest corner.
Dooley personally endorsed a Libertarian challenger against Commissioner Stan Wise, a Republican who she said had gotten too close to Georgia Power.
The tea party groups are also targeting Georgia Power over the rising cost to build two new nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle.
Georgia Power argues the plant makes economic sense in the long run.
Georgia Power makes a natural political foil for the tea party.
Project sponsors include Georgia Power Company (GPC), Oglethorpe Power Corporation (OPC), the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia (MEAG) and the City of Dalton, Georgia (Dalton).
In Georgia, Vogtle Units 3 and 4 (owned jointly by a number of utilities, including Georgia Power) appear in somewhat better shape, but issues have cropped up there as well.
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But Georgia Power, which requested the right to use the property in April 2011, says that the gift was made after it had announced its plans to utilize a section of Mansfield.
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Earlier this month, Debbie Dooley, another co-founder of the Atlanta Tea Party, urged the state's elected utility regulators on the Public Service Commission, all Republicans, to force Georgia Power to use more solar energy.
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.
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.
After pro-Western President Mikheil Saakashvili took power in Georgia in 2003, he vowed to reunite Abkhazia with Georgia.
That was down from about 14, 000 without power in Georgia a day earlier.
The pro-Western Saakashvili came to power in Georgia's "Rose Revolution" in 2003 and was elected president in 2004 and 2008.
President Saakashvili came to power after Georgia's 2003 Rose Revolution and by law has to step down in 2013 after two terms in office.
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Its plants supply power to Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida.
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The Southern Company, based in Atlanta, Georgia, is the dirtiest power plant, according to the report.
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In terms of international law, says the EU report, this had no legal power and challenged Georgia's sovereignty.
By Thursday, it had spread tens of thousands of power outages from Georgia to Connecticut, triggered flash floods and forced water rescues in areas outside Washington.
Hairy Dawg debuted in 1980, when Georgia, a rising football power led by running back sensation Herschel Walker, defeated Penn State in the Sugar Bowl for the national championship.
Yet some officials remain concerned that Gill apparently enjoys the political protection of Norquist, the architect of the 1994 Republican election sweep that brought Georgia Republican Newt Gingrich to power as House speaker.
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He reports that Essen, Germany-based power company RWE commissioned a wood pellet plant in Georgia to produce 750, 000 metric tons annually for RWE power stations in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
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Utilities reported about 21, 000 customers without power in west and north Georgia and metropolitan Atlanta.
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In another exciting development, researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a self-charging power cell that's able to directly convert mechanical energy into chemical energy, making it possible to harvest up to five times more energy from footsteps.
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