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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Georgia Power gets approval for rate hike

Customers of Georgia Power can expect the average residential bill to go up by about $2.93 starting in July. Tuesday, the Public Service Commission approved a rate hike request of Georgia Power. The state’s largest utility had asked for an additional 222-million dollars to help pay for higher fuel costs—--the PSC approved an amount about 7-million below that.

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