April 6, 2026

Environmental and religious groups are taking Georgia regulators to court after they approved a utility company’s energy expansion.

The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) and its activist co-plaintiffs petitioned the Fulton Superior Court on March 25 demanding review Georgia Power’s bid to buy or build 28 energy generative resources.

The suit alleges the Georgia Professional Standards Commission (PSC) exceeded its legal authority by allowing a “monopoly utility” to make “unnecessary and uneconomic investments that will be charged to captive customers,” according to the petition documents.

GEORGIA POWER EXPANSION IN COURT SHOWDOWN: Activists, churches sue Georgia regulators after approval of a massive utility expansion, accusing the PSC of giving monopoly Georgia Power a green light for “unnecessary and uneconomic” spending that could hit captive customers with higher bills. The challenge, filed in Fulton Superior Court, targets the utility’s push to buy or build 28 energy resources—9,617 megawatts total—far above what opponents say is needed, with the fight centering on whether the commission overstepped its authority as data center demand and gas plant plans drive the stakes higher.

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