Alicia Johnson is running to be a Georgia energy regulator in part because she knows firsthand what it’s like to be a customer of a for-profit monopoly utility.
“I’ve been a Georgia Power customer all my life, unlike our current Public Service Commission, who are not Georgia Power customers,” she said at a recent campaign stop on the riverfront in Savannah, her hometown.
The five-member Georgia PSC, all Republicans, regulates the rates charged by Georgia Power but not the rates charged by the not-for-profit membership-owned electric cooperatives like the Jackson Electric Membership Corporation that provides residential service to her opponent incumbent Tim Echols in Jackson County…