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Right of first refusal laws for electric transmission development offer incumbent utilities the initial opportunity to build transmission projects rather than putting the projects out for a competitive solicitation bid among independent transmission developers. Read More Here. Is the Amount of Electricity Used by Data Centers a Problem for the State of Georgia and for the nation? Data centers use an enormous amount of electricity. Citing a boom in new business customers, Georgia Power boosted its projected demand growth over the next seven years from less than 400 megawatts to 6,600 megawatts, or about a third more than the utility’s total capacity at the beginning of 2023. Chris Pumphrey, president of the public-private Elevate Douglas Economic Partnerships in Douglas County is quoted in a WSJ article as saying, “They’re essential to our economy.”As for the energy concerns, he added, “We have to figure something out.” The fact is that this issue must be addressed head-on, and soon.  Read an article (a national perspective) on this issue from Pluribus News here. Legislation could be introduced in the upcoming 2025 legislative session that would provide that third-party companies could offer "community solar" to Georgia Power customers. A study committee that I established near the end of last session, and chaired by Chairwoman Beth Camp is continuing to study the issue. Information of the issue can be read here Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) are emerging as a promising technology within the nuclear energy sector, designed to provide a safer, more flexible, and scalable alternative to traditional large-scale nuclear reactors. The development and deploy-ment of SMRs have gained significant momentum in recent years due to the need for cleaner energy sources, grid stability, and energy security. Read more here. Appalachian Power in Virginia plans small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) in Campbell County. read article here
State of Nuclear Energy from the Nuclear Energy Institute  |
A few years ago, I found a book,
Climate and Man, published in 1941
by the United States Government. It is a huge book with an
in-credible amount of information related to weather, especially as
weather affects agriculture. I was immediately curious as whether,
perhaps, the book contained any information from a 1941 per spective
on climate change. I suspected that it did not. However, I was very
pleasantly surprised that it contains an entire sub-chapter on
climate change that I find very informative and enlightening. The
following are the major excerpts, quoted directly, from that
sub-chapter. As I continue my study of climate change, I find the
information, despite it being almost eighty years old, to be very
useful and beneficial in understanding this most important issue.
Read more
here.
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Halts Net Neutrality
A U.S. appeals court ruled the Federal Communications Commission does not have legal authority to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules. A three-judge panel of the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the FCC lacked authority to reinstate the rules initially implemented in 2015 by the agency under Democratic former President Barack Obama, but then repealed by the commission in 2017 under Republican former President Donald Trump. Net-neutrality rules require internet service providers to discriminate against everyday, normal internet users by favoring the large users by allowing them (the huge companies like Google) to gobble up bandwidth. More about so-called Net Neutrality here. |
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A tax credit allows for a certain percentage of money spent by an individual or organization towards specified items to be deducted from the amount of money that would otherwise be owed in taxes. We, in the fiscally responsible Republican majority in the Georgia legislature grant tax credits cautiously, and usually only to expand job opportunities. We have a balanced budget in Georgia. However, the Democrat controlled federal government has no requirement for a balanced budged; no far from it with a $35 trillion debt it has imposed upon us. The money we pay in taxes to the federal government goes toward the interest on that debt, not even touching the principal. Interest on the debt is the second highest line item in the federal budget. |
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As Chairman of the Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications Committee in
the Georgia House of Representatives, I
have the opportunity and responsibility to to review many important
issues that touch our lives every day. I have also worked on issues such
as "vctims' rights", "energy resilience" "vehicle emissions" and
"cybersecurity" just to list a few. Many of the bills I have worked on and successfully passed over the years have been the result of constituent input. Please contact me with any suggestions you might have. |
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It is an honor to serve as your State Representative in the Georgia General Assembly. Thank you for visiting my website. I hope the infomation here will help you learn more about my campaign and my service to in the General Assembly. Please do not hesitate to get in touch with me when I can be of assistance. My office telephone number is 770-977-4426. My email address is repdon@donparsons.org
I invite you to contact me with questions about issues that are important to you. |
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