Georgia Power utility-specific rules
The Commission approved minimum-billing and longer-contract authority with Staff oversight and contract filing. This is not a statewide rule for every electric provider.
Current position
Effective Georgia Power rules apply to new customers at 100 MW or more; contracts and implementation terms remain utility- and customer-specific.
- Actions
- 1
- Published tariffs
- 0
- Legislation
- 2
- Status
- Adopted
Regulatory and utility record
Tariffs, contracts, and proceedings
Each record is shown on its own terms. A utility-specific tariff or contract does not automatically apply to every large customer in the state.
Georgia Power · Effective
Georgia Power alternate rate plan
Georgia Power's base-rate plan remains an open umbrella docket with an approved extension and ongoing compliance, storm, and large-load filings.
Why it matters
Base rates are stabilized under the approved plan; the 10.5% set-point ROE governs specified deferral availability but is not a guaranteed earned return.
Enforceable terms
Key requirements
Eligibility threshold
100 MW expected peak demand
Coverage may aggregate premises on one tract or contiguous tracts.
Minimum payment
Customer-specific minimum billing
The filed rules authorize minimum-billing obligations sized to the facilities and power-supply commitments required for the customer.
Minimum contract term
Customer-specific extended term
The service contract may extend beyond the otherwise applicable schedule so Georgia Power can recover customer-caused costs.
- Service structure
- Special-contract overlay to the applicable retail scheduleEffectiveThe Commission-approved framework preserves customer-specific contracts while requiring filing and regulatory oversight.
- Credit and collateral
- Performance and credit support as Georgia Power deems appropriateEffectiveThe exact security is established in the customer contract rather than as one statewide percentage.
- Exit protection
- All unrecovered distribution, transmission, and generation costsEffectiveEarly termination can trigger a make-whole charge for the remaining customer-caused investment and commitments.
- Grid infrastructure
- CIAC or upfront payment for local facilitiesEffectiveSite and local facilities may require contributions before construction; upstream system costs can also be directly assigned.
- Generation and resource costs
- Customer-specific generation and transmission commitmentsEffectiveThe contract may allocate the costs of resources and network commitments procured for the new load.
Official sources supporting these requirements
Statutory record
Legislation
HB 1063
2025-2026
Data-center construction and operating cost protections
Would require electric utilities to protect residential and retail customers from data-center construction and operating costs through specified contract terms and enforcement provisions.
Passed the House and was referred to the Senate Regulated Industries and Utilities Committee.
HB 1012
2025-2026
Temporary data-center construction moratorium
Would temporarily prohibit new data-center construction or development, subject to stated exceptions. It is a siting measure adjacent to utility tariff and cost-allocation policy.
Read a second time in the House and assigned to Governmental Affairs.
“Not specified” means the current official tariff record does not establish a normalized term. Retail tariff requirements are not inferred from wholesale-grid rules, interconnection processes, or pending policy proceedings.