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With energy demand surging, utilities fall back on their old standby: Fossil fuels

Federal incentives for clean energy are struggling to overcome old-school planning.

Georgia is enjoying an economic boom. Lured by tax breaks, high-tech data centers and manufacturers are flooding the state. It’s a trend state leaders are celebrating at every opportunity.

“We have seen over 171,000 new jobs come to our communities, we brought in over $74.5 billion of investment to the state,” Governor Brian Kemp told a gathering of lawmakers, business leaders, and other Georgia bigwigs earlier this year.

But that growth has created a problem: all the new businesses need lots of electricity.

The state’s largest electric utility, Georgia Power, now says it needs significantly more energy, significantly sooner than planned to meet the spike in demand. So the company is asking to buy and generate that electricity. Their plan calls for solar power coupled with battery storage, but it relies heavily on fossil fuels, including three brand new turbines to be powered with oil and natural gas.

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This seems is an example of why imo we probably need climate policy that puts as much if not more effort into punishing bad conduct (i.e. burning fosil fuels) as it does into subsidizing good conduct (i.e. building renewable energy capacity). The “por que los dos?” approach energy companies want to take isn’t sufficient.

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