{"626895":{"#nid":"626895","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Proposed Georgia Power Rate Hike Hearings Begin This Week","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/brown\u0022\u003EMarilyn Brown\u003C\/a\u003E, a\u0026nbsp;Regents\u0026#39; and Brook\u0026nbsp;Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Ein the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy, was recently quoted in an\u0026nbsp;article entitled \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.wabe.org\/proposed-georgia-power-rate-hike-hearings-begin-this-week\/\u0022\u003E\u0026ldquo;Proposed Georgia Power Rate Hike Hearings Begin This Week\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/a\u003E for\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EWABE\u003C\/em\u003E, September 30.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHere\u0026#39;s an excerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Power is requesting to raise customer rates by about $10 per month for the average residential user.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe request is more than $2.2 billion over the next three years, and hearings before the Public Service Commission are scheduled to happen Monday through Wednesday. Protests are also planned by those who disagree with the hike request.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMany don\u0026rsquo;t want their bills to go up in general, but some experts are also worried the increase as proposed could stifle energy efficiency.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.wabe.org\/proposed-georgia-power-rate-hike-hearings-begin-this-week\/\u0022\u003ERead the full story here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EThe School of Public Policy\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a unit of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34559","created_gmt":"2019-09-30 16:38:57","changed_gmt":"2019-09-30 16:38:57","author":"pdemerritt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"2022 benefits","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.wabe.org\/proposed-georgia-power-rate-hike-hearings-begin-this-week\/","dateline":{"date":"2019-09-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-09-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"617552":{"id":"617552","type":"image","title":"Marilyn Brown","body":null,"created":"1549654607","gmt_created":"2019-02-08 19:36:47","changed":"1549654607","gmt_changed":"2019-02-08 19:36:47","alt":"","file":{"fid":"235058","name":"Brown Portrait High Res 2018.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Brown%20Portrait%20High%20Res%202018.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Brown%20Portrait%20High%20Res%202018.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1084696,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Brown%20Portrait%20High%20Res%202018.png?itok=xDn4Rjz4"}}},"media_ids":["617552"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"330","name":"Marilyn Brown"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}