About Peter Hubbard
Peter Hubbard is an energy expert who understands that renewable energy lowers power bills, while extending coal plants and building brand new fossil gas-fired power plants raises power bills. The current PSC Commissioners do not yet understand this simple fact, which is why Peter Hubbard is running for the Georgia Public Service Commission.
Peter Hubbard lives in Atlanta and has called Georgia home since 2015. Peter is married to an amazing person (Alyson) with two amazing children. Since 2019, Peter has intervened in Georgia Power Company’s Integrated Resource Plan to advocate for cleaner, cheaper, and more reliable renewable energy. Because the current PSC ignores this evidence, I am running to replace the District 3 seat.
Clean Energy Advocacy:
Peter Hubbard works as a clean energy advocate for the Georgia Center for Energy Solutions, a nonprofit working since 2019 toward an Integrated Resource Plan for Georgia that lowers costs and harmful emissions. Clicking the link to the left will lead to the GCES website. Here, you’ll see analysis from the 2023 IRP Update with criticisms of the plan that will increase bills for customers and with solutions to lower bills for everyone. The current Public Service Commission has consistently ignored lower cost options so that they can maintain maximum corporate profit.
An update for the 2025 IRP is forthcoming.
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (excerpt)
A third expert in the 2022 IRP hearings, Peter Hubbard,… believes the forecasting models that Georgia Power uses benefit more infrastructure. “They constrain models to produce an output favorable to building more infrastructure and natural gas,” he said. “Georgia Power modeling and forecasting say this is what is optimal.” Hubbard called the 2022 IRP “technically flawed” in his testimony. “The barriers to faster renewable energy integration are not technical,” Hubbard said. “The barriers are embedded in the 2022 IRP.” Hubbard added that sharing resources among states was absent in the 2022 energy plan and that would help incorporate more renewables in the mix. “Georgia Power needs to share (renewable) resources geographically with all of our neighbors like Tennessee Valley Authority to the north and Florida to the south,” he said. “You can share those resources among regions, that gets you closer to that 100% renewables.”
Source: https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/environment/article301386404.html
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