Southface, Vote Solar and Partnership for Southern Equity invite you to a six-part training and roundtable discussion series designed to give you the information and tools you need for meaningful engagement in the 2022 Georgia Power Integrated Resource Plan (IRP). The IRP outlines how Georgia Power, the state’s largest utility, will direct ratepayer-funded energy efficiency, generation, transmission, and distribution investments over the next 20 years. These investment decisions will have a broad impact in Georgia, but the public can help direct the utility’s decisions towards catalyzing a regenerative economy through participation in the 2022 IRP process and this multipart training and collaboration roundtable. Interested parties can register for all or any individual sessions. We welcome everyone to participate!

We’ve also prepared some materials for participants, introducing the IRP and other energy topics we’ll discuss:

Georgia IRP  – Introduction and Overview

Understanding the Electricity System in Georgia

Utility Avoided Cost – A Tool for Valuing Renewable Energy and Utility Energy Efficiency Programs in Georgia

Southface is a core partner alongside Groundswell, Elevate Energy and Clean Energy Works in LIFT Solar, a three-year research program funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO). The goal of the LIFT Solar collaborative is to develop optimal program design and pricing to provide low- and moderate-income families greater access to clean and renewable energy.

In collaboration with our partners, Southface works to engage and educate local and state policy and decision makers about advancing the clean energy and regenerative economy in the Southeast. Southface legislative and regulatory advocacy focuses on enabling an equitable transition to a low-carbon future and understanding resource efficiency alongside clean energy as fundamental to our shared prosperity.