Patty Durand
@pattydurand.bsky.social
Founder of Georgians for Affordable Energy with a goal to end Georgia Power profiteering and harmful behavior towards its customers.
Oh my gosh. What in the world.
Shoutout to @tiamitchell.com for flagging this email from the now out-going, veteran Georgia utility regulator Tim Echols, who announced in an email he is leaving the Public Service Commission immediately and taking a sabbatical
November 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Oh my gosh. What in the world.
Boring name … but super, crazy important election on Nov. 4 for the Georgia Public Service Commission!!
Important for rates and for the planet.
We've got the worst PSC in the nation - literally - who've been helping Georgia Power run roughshod over ratepayers and the environment for years: 👇
Important for rates and for the planet.
We've got the worst PSC in the nation - literally - who've been helping Georgia Power run roughshod over ratepayers and the environment for years: 👇
November 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Boring name … but super, crazy important election on Nov. 4 for the Georgia Public Service Commission!!
Important for rates and for the planet.
We've got the worst PSC in the nation - literally - who've been helping Georgia Power run roughshod over ratepayers and the environment for years: 👇
Important for rates and for the planet.
We've got the worst PSC in the nation - literally - who've been helping Georgia Power run roughshod over ratepayers and the environment for years: 👇
What does Trump's $80 billion nuclear deal get us? Maybe four 1 GW nuclear reactors.
Instead, you could build 58 GW of solar or 38GW of wind for the same cost.
More from @nirsnet's Tim Judson 👇
nuclearcosts.org/trumps-westi...
Instead, you could build 58 GW of solar or 38GW of wind for the same cost.
More from @nirsnet's Tim Judson 👇
nuclearcosts.org/trumps-westi...
Trump’s Westinghouse Nuclear Fiasco: Wasting Money on a Corrupt Game of Hot Potato – Nuclear Costs
nuclearcosts.org
November 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
What does Trump's $80 billion nuclear deal get us? Maybe four 1 GW nuclear reactors.
Instead, you could build 58 GW of solar or 38GW of wind for the same cost.
More from @nirsnet's Tim Judson 👇
nuclearcosts.org/trumps-westi...
Instead, you could build 58 GW of solar or 38GW of wind for the same cost.
More from @nirsnet's Tim Judson 👇
nuclearcosts.org/trumps-westi...
Who is going to pay for the Donald J. Trump Nuclear Power Plant in Texas?
Spoiler alert: likely you are!
@nirsnet.bsky.social's Tim Judson on why the $80 billion nuclear 'deal' will end up costing Americans 👇
nuclearcosts.org/trumps-westi...
Spoiler alert: likely you are!
@nirsnet.bsky.social's Tim Judson on why the $80 billion nuclear 'deal' will end up costing Americans 👇
nuclearcosts.org/trumps-westi...
Trump’s Westinghouse Nuclear Fiasco: Wasting Money on a Corrupt Game of Hot Potato – Nuclear Costs
nuclearcosts.org
November 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Who is going to pay for the Donald J. Trump Nuclear Power Plant in Texas?
Spoiler alert: likely you are!
@nirsnet.bsky.social's Tim Judson on why the $80 billion nuclear 'deal' will end up costing Americans 👇
nuclearcosts.org/trumps-westi...
Spoiler alert: likely you are!
@nirsnet.bsky.social's Tim Judson on why the $80 billion nuclear 'deal' will end up costing Americans 👇
nuclearcosts.org/trumps-westi...
The Georgia Public Service Commission hasn't been serving the public for YEARS! The current crop - who are supposed watchdogs over a monopoly - are LAPDOGS:
- rates up 60% since 2010 and 30% since 2023
- bloated profits for Georgia Power
- rates up 60% since 2010 and 30% since 2023
- bloated profits for Georgia Power
October 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The Georgia Public Service Commission hasn't been serving the public for YEARS! The current crop - who are supposed watchdogs over a monopoly - are LAPDOGS:
- rates up 60% since 2010 and 30% since 2023
- bloated profits for Georgia Power
- rates up 60% since 2010 and 30% since 2023
- bloated profits for Georgia Power
Boring Election — Big Impact on your power bills and the environment!
VOTE in the PSC election November 4.
Early voting: October 14–31.
The Georgia PSC decides your electric rates — and they’ve been an EPIC FAIL lately.
VOTE in the PSC election November 4.
Early voting: October 14–31.
The Georgia PSC decides your electric rates — and they’ve been an EPIC FAIL lately.
October 21, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Boring Election — Big Impact on your power bills and the environment!
VOTE in the PSC election November 4.
Early voting: October 14–31.
The Georgia PSC decides your electric rates — and they’ve been an EPIC FAIL lately.
VOTE in the PSC election November 4.
Early voting: October 14–31.
The Georgia PSC decides your electric rates — and they’ve been an EPIC FAIL lately.
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Trick (🎃 + 👹) or Treat (❤️ + 👨🎓)?
Cast Your Vote by October 31! 👻🦇👻🦇
Cast Your Vote by October 31! 👻🦇👻🦇
October 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Trick (🎃 + 👹) or Treat (❤️ + 👨🎓)?
Cast Your Vote by October 31! 👻🦇👻🦇
Cast Your Vote by October 31! 👻🦇👻🦇
Is the US on a fast track to a ☢ disaster? Does anyone trust anything this administration does?
The rush to build more nuclear power should give everyone pause. nuclearcosts.org/new-nuclear-...
The rush to build more nuclear power should give everyone pause. nuclearcosts.org/new-nuclear-...
New nuclear push brings old dangers back — and bigger than ever – Nuclear Costs
nuclearcosts.org
October 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Is the US on a fast track to a ☢ disaster? Does anyone trust anything this administration does?
The rush to build more nuclear power should give everyone pause. nuclearcosts.org/new-nuclear-...
The rush to build more nuclear power should give everyone pause. nuclearcosts.org/new-nuclear-...
Make America Radioactive Again? Think again.
@BeyondNuclear 's Kevin Kamps on why the current push for new nukes is especially dangerous this time around.
Don't buy into the nuclear revival hype!
nuclearcosts.org/new-nuclear-...
@BeyondNuclear 's Kevin Kamps on why the current push for new nukes is especially dangerous this time around.
Don't buy into the nuclear revival hype!
nuclearcosts.org/new-nuclear-...
New nuclear push brings old dangers back — and bigger than ever – Nuclear Costs
nuclearcosts.org
October 18, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Make America Radioactive Again? Think again.
@BeyondNuclear 's Kevin Kamps on why the current push for new nukes is especially dangerous this time around.
Don't buy into the nuclear revival hype!
nuclearcosts.org/new-nuclear-...
@BeyondNuclear 's Kevin Kamps on why the current push for new nukes is especially dangerous this time around.
Don't buy into the nuclear revival hype!
nuclearcosts.org/new-nuclear-...
Is your Georgia Power bill enormous?
Are you concerned about climate change?
We have a chance to do something about it on November 4th! Two of five Public Service Commission seats are up for election on November 4.
Are you concerned about climate change?
We have a chance to do something about it on November 4th! Two of five Public Service Commission seats are up for election on November 4.
October 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Is your Georgia Power bill enormous?
Are you concerned about climate change?
We have a chance to do something about it on November 4th! Two of five Public Service Commission seats are up for election on November 4.
Are you concerned about climate change?
We have a chance to do something about it on November 4th! Two of five Public Service Commission seats are up for election on November 4.
Not-so-fun facts about why we're all suffering skyrocketing Georgia Power bills:
a.) We’re paying for the most expensive plant ever—Plant Vogtle. Supposed to cost $10B & take 7–8 yrs. Instead: 15 yrs, $36.5B. GA Power made $17B while adding $18B in overruns—enabled by the PSC.
a.) We’re paying for the most expensive plant ever—Plant Vogtle. Supposed to cost $10B & take 7–8 yrs. Instead: 15 yrs, $36.5B. GA Power made $17B while adding $18B in overruns—enabled by the PSC.
October 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Not-so-fun facts about why we're all suffering skyrocketing Georgia Power bills:
a.) We’re paying for the most expensive plant ever—Plant Vogtle. Supposed to cost $10B & take 7–8 yrs. Instead: 15 yrs, $36.5B. GA Power made $17B while adding $18B in overruns—enabled by the PSC.
a.) We’re paying for the most expensive plant ever—Plant Vogtle. Supposed to cost $10B & take 7–8 yrs. Instead: 15 yrs, $36.5B. GA Power made $17B while adding $18B in overruns—enabled by the PSC.
We all know that power bills have spiked the past few years (30+% since 2023, with more rate hikes coming) but we can do something about it on Nov 4th by voting OUT the 2 incumbents on the ballot for Georgia Public Service Commission!
October 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
We all know that power bills have spiked the past few years (30+% since 2023, with more rate hikes coming) but we can do something about it on Nov 4th by voting OUT the 2 incumbents on the ballot for Georgia Public Service Commission!
Calling everybody—old, young, tall, short, Republican, Dem, or Independent.
Georgia Power has hit us all with 6 rate hikes in 2 years, bloated profits, dirty energy, and bad decisions. The Georgia Public Service Commission, our watchdog, has become their lapdog.
Georgia Power has hit us all with 6 rate hikes in 2 years, bloated profits, dirty energy, and bad decisions. The Georgia Public Service Commission, our watchdog, has become their lapdog.
October 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Calling everybody—old, young, tall, short, Republican, Dem, or Independent.
Georgia Power has hit us all with 6 rate hikes in 2 years, bloated profits, dirty energy, and bad decisions. The Georgia Public Service Commission, our watchdog, has become their lapdog.
Georgia Power has hit us all with 6 rate hikes in 2 years, bloated profits, dirty energy, and bad decisions. The Georgia Public Service Commission, our watchdog, has become their lapdog.
I find it ironic that New Jersey's Governor race is jolted by a 22% rise in electricity rates when Georgia Power's Plant Vogtle increased our rates 25% for just one power plant for just a piddly amount of new capacity: 1020 MWs for Georgia Power's 45.7% share of Vogtle output.
October 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I find it ironic that New Jersey's Governor race is jolted by a 22% rise in electricity rates when Georgia Power's Plant Vogtle increased our rates 25% for just one power plant for just a piddly amount of new capacity: 1020 MWs for Georgia Power's 45.7% share of Vogtle output.
Anybody else tired of rising power bills?!?
Good news: we can DO something about this by voting OUT the 2 incumbents in the upcoming Public Service Commission election on Nov. 4th.
Good news: we can DO something about this by voting OUT the 2 incumbents in the upcoming Public Service Commission election on Nov. 4th.
October 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Anybody else tired of rising power bills?!?
Good news: we can DO something about this by voting OUT the 2 incumbents in the upcoming Public Service Commission election on Nov. 4th.
Good news: we can DO something about this by voting OUT the 2 incumbents in the upcoming Public Service Commission election on Nov. 4th.
Things are heating up in Georgia. Just 26 days left to the Georgia Public Service Commission election where Commissioner Tim Echols @timechols.bsky.social and Fitz Johnson will lose their seats, I mean, face voters for the first time since voting to put almost all the cost overruns for Vogtle
October 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Things are heating up in Georgia. Just 26 days left to the Georgia Public Service Commission election where Commissioner Tim Echols @timechols.bsky.social and Fitz Johnson will lose their seats, I mean, face voters for the first time since voting to put almost all the cost overruns for Vogtle
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Trump’s openly talking about invoking the Insurrection Act with zero insurrection in sight. He’s inventing chaos in Portland and Chicago, and even saying he’d use it if courts or local officials are ‘holding us up’.
Wild how he didn’t bother using it during the actual insurrection on January 6.
Wild how he didn’t bother using it during the actual insurrection on January 6.
October 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Trump’s openly talking about invoking the Insurrection Act with zero insurrection in sight. He’s inventing chaos in Portland and Chicago, and even saying he’d use it if courts or local officials are ‘holding us up’.
Wild how he didn’t bother using it during the actual insurrection on January 6.
Wild how he didn’t bother using it during the actual insurrection on January 6.
An important point made by the Cato Institute's Stephen Thomas regarding the current talk of a nuclear renaissance...
The enormous opportunity cost of wasting our time and resources on nuclear while there are faster, cheaper alternatives readily available. 👇
nuclearcosts.org/the-next-nuc...
The enormous opportunity cost of wasting our time and resources on nuclear while there are faster, cheaper alternatives readily available. 👇
nuclearcosts.org/the-next-nuc...
The Next Nuclear Renaissance? Will a new wave of nuclear power projects deliver the safe and economical electricity that proponents have long predicted? – Nuclear Costs
nuclearcosts.org
October 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
An important point made by the Cato Institute's Stephen Thomas regarding the current talk of a nuclear renaissance...
The enormous opportunity cost of wasting our time and resources on nuclear while there are faster, cheaper alternatives readily available. 👇
nuclearcosts.org/the-next-nuc...
The enormous opportunity cost of wasting our time and resources on nuclear while there are faster, cheaper alternatives readily available. 👇
nuclearcosts.org/the-next-nuc...
Why are we talking about a nuclear renaissance again?
A must read: the Cato Institute's truth 💣 about the prospects of a rosy nuclear future 👇
nuclearcosts.org/the-next-nuc...
A must read: the Cato Institute's truth 💣 about the prospects of a rosy nuclear future 👇
nuclearcosts.org/the-next-nuc...
The Next Nuclear Renaissance? Will a new wave of nuclear power projects deliver the safe and economical electricity that proponents have long predicted? – Nuclear Costs
nuclearcosts.org
October 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Why are we talking about a nuclear renaissance again?
A must read: the Cato Institute's truth 💣 about the prospects of a rosy nuclear future 👇
nuclearcosts.org/the-next-nuc...
A must read: the Cato Institute's truth 💣 about the prospects of a rosy nuclear future 👇
nuclearcosts.org/the-next-nuc...
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Southern Company is an out-of-control monopolistic energy cartel in league with OPEC
Could Southern Nuclear be any more tone deaf? Disrespectful? Georgia Power customers are struggling with car payment sized electricity bills after a 25% rate increase May 2024 to pay for a piddly 1,120 MWs of nuclear power generation after years of being told it would cost 2-3%.
October 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Southern Company is an out-of-control monopolistic energy cartel in league with OPEC
Could Southern Nuclear be any more tone deaf? Disrespectful? Georgia Power customers are struggling with car payment sized electricity bills after a 25% rate increase May 2024 to pay for a piddly 1,120 MWs of nuclear power generation after years of being told it would cost 2-3%.
October 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Could Southern Nuclear be any more tone deaf? Disrespectful? Georgia Power customers are struggling with car payment sized electricity bills after a 25% rate increase May 2024 to pay for a piddly 1,120 MWs of nuclear power generation after years of being told it would cost 2-3%.
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Rather remarkable that the Trump administration response to a government shutdown is "let's inflict as much pain as possible on as many Americans as possible"
October 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Rather remarkable that the Trump administration response to a government shutdown is "let's inflict as much pain as possible on as many Americans as possible"
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I know we're desensitized, but it's important to note, again, that today's events would have led to the immediate impeachment & removal of any president from at least Truman to at least Obama. We're hundreds of miles on the interstate past Richard Nixon's high school prank-level crimes compared to 👇
Trump wraps up a speech to military leaders that represented a major escalation of his effort to weaponize the armed forces into a tool he can use to violently quash domestic dissent. Hard to imagine how anyone with a shred of dignity can keep serving after this, which of course is the point.
September 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I know we're desensitized, but it's important to note, again, that today's events would have led to the immediate impeachment & removal of any president from at least Truman to at least Obama. We're hundreds of miles on the interstate past Richard Nixon's high school prank-level crimes compared to 👇
Republicans don’t like anyone knowing they’re screwing over the stable climate we rely on to live our lives so have ended data collection on carbon emissions to hide the truth of their fossil fuel addiction. I’d say it’s unbelievable but it’s just another day in the office for them.
October 1, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Republicans don’t like anyone knowing they’re screwing over the stable climate we rely on to live our lives so have ended data collection on carbon emissions to hide the truth of their fossil fuel addiction. I’d say it’s unbelievable but it’s just another day in the office for them.
Amory Lovins is right, it's absolutely absurd to believe nuclear power will meet the needs of AI data centers.
☀ + Microgrids are the way.
nuclearcosts.org/nuclear-powe...
☀ + Microgrids are the way.
nuclearcosts.org/nuclear-powe...
Nuclear power is failing, and AI can’t rescue it – Nuclear Costs
nuclearcosts.org
September 27, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Amory Lovins is right, it's absolutely absurd to believe nuclear power will meet the needs of AI data centers.
☀ + Microgrids are the way.
nuclearcosts.org/nuclear-powe...
☀ + Microgrids are the way.
nuclearcosts.org/nuclear-powe...