{
  "id": "ga-psc-docket44280-order-tariff-compliance-large-load-2025-04",
  "jurisdiction": "GA",
  "kind": "order",
  "status": "approved",
  "title": "Order on Georgia Power Company's Revision to Rules and Regulations Tariff Compliance Filing (Large-Load Minimum Bill, Termination, and Collateral Framework)",
  "citation": "Georgia Public Service Commission, Docket No. 44280 (GPC 2022 Rate Case), Order on Georgia Power Company's Revision to Rules and Regulations Tariff Compliance Filing, approved at the April 15, 2025 Administrative Session, filed April 17, 2025",
  "docket_no": "44280 (In Re: Georgia Power Company's 2022 Rate Case)",
  "agency": "Georgia Public Service Commission (GPSC)",
  "utility": "Georgia Power Company",
  "verification": "verified",
  "updated_at": "2026-08-20T06:48:05.156405+00:00",
  "record_url": "https://verifiedatlas.com/i/ga-psc-docket44280-order-tariff-compliance-large-load-2025-04/",
  "snapshot_built_at": "2026-09-14T14:33:17+00:00",
  "sources": [
    {
      "url": "https://services.psc.ga.gov/api/v1/External/Public/Get/Document/DownloadFile/222325/103476",
      "pinpoint": "p.2",
      "quote": "Under the draft terms and conditions, customers would pay the higher of tariffed rates or a minimum bill amount each billing period they are a customer. If the customer ended the contract early, the customer would be liable for the minimum bill amounts (not tariffed rate amounts) for each period for the remaining term of the contract. The tariffed rates would be subject to future review and modification by the Commission using normal ratemaking processes. However, the minimum bill amounts would not.",
      "quote_chars": 504,
      "title": "Georgia PSC, Docket No. 44280 (GPC 2022 Rate Case), Order on Georgia Power Company's Revision to Rules and Regulations Tariff Compliance Filing (filed 04/17/2025)",
      "source_type": "order",
      "verification": "verified"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://services.psc.ga.gov/api/v1/External/Public/Get/Document/DownloadFile/222325/103476",
      "pinpoint": "p.3 (Finding of Fact / Staff recommendation ¶3)",
      "quote": "Staff has reviewed and recommended approval of the large load contracting framework for the terms and conditions implementing the revisions to the Company’s Rules and Regulations approved by the Commission in the Revision Approval Order. The terms and conditions of each large load contract including the minimum bill, termination, and collateral provisions will apply this framework.",
      "quote_chars": 384,
      "title": "Georgia PSC, Docket No. 44280 (GPC 2022 Rate Case), Order on Georgia Power Company's Revision to Rules and Regulations Tariff Compliance Filing (filed 04/17/2025)",
      "source_type": "order",
      "verification": "verified"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://services.psc.ga.gov/api/v1/External/Public/Get/Document/DownloadFile/222325/103476",
      "pinpoint": "p.3 (Finding of Fact / Staff recommendation ¶5)",
      "quote": "As defined in the revisions to the Rules and Regulations (100 MW or greater at one or more premises located on one tract or contiguous tracts of land), the Company will file each such contract with the Commission at least thirty (30) days prior to execution of the contract. At the time of such filing, the Company will provide Commission Staff documentation demonstrating that the contract complies with the requirements of the Revision Approval Order. Once filed, Commission Staff may raise objections to the contract, and the Company and Commission Staff will work together in good faith to resolve any such objections. If Staff does not file an objection within thirty (30) days of the filing of the contract, the contract shall be deemed approved.",
      "quote_chars": 752,
      "title": "Georgia PSC, Docket No. 44280 (GPC 2022 Rate Case), Order on Georgia Power Company's Revision to Rules and Regulations Tariff Compliance Filing (filed 04/17/2025)",
      "source_type": "order",
      "verification": "verified"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://services.psc.ga.gov/api/v1/External/Public/Get/Document/DownloadFile/226633/107893",
      "pinpoint": "Cover letter to the Executive Secretary, \"Large Load Contract - Filing Executed Contract 5.15.26.docx\"",
      "quote": "Pursuant to the Georgia Public Service Commission's (the \"Commission\") January 28, 2025, order in the above-referenced docket, enclosed for filing is a fully executed large load contract for 1,400 MW of electric service. This contract was submitted for Commission Staff review on March 20, 2026, and was deemed approved on April 20, 2026.",
      "quote_chars": 338,
      "title": "Georgia Power Company, Executed Large Load Contract Filing, Docket No. 44280 (public disclosure), filed 5/15/2026",
      "source_type": "order",
      "verification": "verified"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://services.psc.ga.gov/api/v1/External/Public/Get/Document/DownloadFile/226633/107893",
      "pinpoint": "\"TS Assertion - Executed Large Load Contract Filing.docx\"",
      "quote": "In accordance with that Order, the Company is filing an executed large load contract, which includes confidential and proprietary information (the \"Information\"). All such Information constitutes trade secret information of the Southern Company, Georgia Power, and its affiliates, and is therefore protected from public disclosure under Commission Rule 515-3-1-.11.",
      "quote_chars": 365,
      "title": "Georgia Power Company, Basis for the Assertion that the Information Submitted is a Trade Secret, Docket No. 44280, filed 5/15/2026",
      "source_type": "order",
      "verification": "verified"
    }
  ],
  "threshold_mw": 100,
  "mandatory": true,
  "summary": "Following the January 23/28, 2025 order approving revisions to Georgia Power's Rules and Regulations (see companion instrument in this file), Georgia Power filed compliance tariff revisions (Feb. 28, 2025, proposed effective April 1, 2025), provided PSC Staff with draft large-load contracting terms and conditions (March 11, 2025), and filed two further TOU-SC-15 tariff revisions (March 19 and April 4, 2025) clarifying minimum-bill and early-termination language. At its April 15, 2025 Administrative Session the Commission voted to approve Staff's recommendation and issued this order (filed April 17, 2025), which: (1) approves the updated tariffs and the large-load \"contracting framework\" for minimum bill, termination, and collateral provisions; (2) confirms customers pay the higher of tariffed rates or a minimum bill amount each period, with the minimum bill (unlike the tariffed rate) not subject to ordinary Commission rate review; (3) requires the Company to file every executed large-load contract at least 30 days before execution, with a Staff-objection/deemed-approval process; (4) requires the Company to update minimum-bill calculation inputs at least annually and notify Staff/provide an updated cost model when it does; and (5) reiterates that the Company must exercise its discretion \"in a manner designed to protect existing customers from bearing any of the costs of adding large load customers 100 MW or greater.\" This is the order the task brief anticipated as \"the 2025 Georgia Power ... rate case terms touching large loads\" with distinct binding terms -- it operationalizes (rather than merely announces) the January 2025 rule's minimum-bill, termination, and collateral machinery.",
  "exit_terms": "THE HEADLINE TERM -- minimum-bill liability SURVIVES early termination. Verbatim from the order's Section II, FINDINGS OF FACT (p.2), describing the draft terms and conditions the Commission then approved: \"Under the draft terms and conditions, customers would pay the higher of tariffed rates or a minimum bill amount each billing period they are a customer. If the customer ended the contract early, the customer would be liable for the minimum bill amounts (not tariffed rate amounts) for each period for the remaining term of the contract. The tariffed rates would be subject to future review and modification by the Commission using normal ratemaking processes. However, the minimum bill amounts would not.\" That framework is then ADOPTED by the order's own decretal language (p.4): \"ORDERED FURTHER, that the Commission approves the updated tariffs and the large load contracting framework for the terms and conditions implementing the revisions to the Company’s Rules and Regulations as approved in the Revision Approval Order,\" and (p.5) \"...including with respect to the minimum bill, termination, and collateral provisions established for these large load customers.\" So the remaining-term minimum-bill exposure is a Commission-approved framework term, not merely a Staff description. The PSC's own March 2026 Data Center Fact Sheet states the same purpose in plain words: \"The purpose for the new rule is to ensure data centers continue paying for new infrastructure even if they leave the state.\" NOTE (unchanged by the gate): an unsourced secondary claim that an early-terminating customer owes only \"2 years\" of minimum bills is contradicted by this order's text and is NOT recorded as a fact; the gate found no primary supporting it.",
  "collateral_terms": "\"Staff has reviewed and recommended approval of the large load contracting framework for the terms and conditions implementing the revisions to the Company’s Rules and Regulations approved by the Commission in the Revision Approval Order. The terms and conditions of each large load contract including the minimum bill, termination, and collateral provisions will apply this framework. To the extent that the actual language in a contract differs from the language in the draft terms and conditions provided to Staff, Staff may object to such language if Staff deems that such modification is substantive and does not adequately protect existing customers from bearing any of the costs of adding the customer.\" The order does not itself state a collateral dollar figure or formula; it approves a framework reviewed by Staff in a separate (not independently obtained this tick) draft terms-and-conditions document -- open item.",
  "cost_allocation": "\"The Company has provided Staff with a framework for determining minimum bills, but not a definitive calculation that Staff can replicate. Under this framework, the minimum bill amounts would be set to recover the transmission and generation costs being incurred to serve the new large-load customers. Conceptually, this framework appears to be reasonable; however, Staff has not yet seen how the Company intends to apply the framework in practice.\" The order further requires (Finding/Ordering paragraph 5) that, \"[a]s defined in the revisions to the Rules and Regulations (100 MW or greater at one or more premises located on one tract or contiguous tracts of land), the Company will file each such contract with the Commission at least thirty (30) days prior to execution of the contract... Once filed, Commission Staff may raise objections to the contract... If Staff does not file an objection within thirty (30) days of the filing of the contract, the contract shall be deemed approved. If Staff files an objection, the contract shall be approved if the Commission takes no action within thirty (30) days after the Staff's filing.\""
}