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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 46. PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION · Chapter 3. ELECTRICAL SERVICE · Article 1. GENERATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRICITY GENERALLY · Part 3. SALE OF ELECTRICITY BY FACILITY GENERATING ELECTRICITY, STEAM, OR OTHER FORMS OF ENERGY FOR ITS OWN CONSUMPTION

46-3-51. Legislative determinations and declarations.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

  1. (a)

    The legislature finds that it is in the public interest to:#

    1. (1)

      Encourage private investment in renewable energy resources;#

    2. (2)

      Stimulate the economic growth of Georgia; and#

    3. (3)

      Enhance the continued diversification of the energy resources used in Georgia.#

  2. (b)

    The General Assembly further finds and declares that a program to provide distributed generation for eligible cogenerators is a way to encourage private investment in renewable energy resources, stimulate in-state economic growth, enhance the continued diversification of this state’s energy resource mix, and reduce interconnection and administrative costs.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 46-3-51, enacted by Ga. L. 2001, p. 1149, § 1.

Editor's notes

Ga. L. 2001, p. 1149, § 1, redesignated former Code Section 46-3-51 as present Code Section 46-3-52.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

Text read from t46-(v34)-2025-pdf.pdf, Volume V34, 2025 edition, pages 183 to 184; merge action: bound only; file SHA-256 53ab60ae5027.