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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

46-3-53. Jurisdiction of commission over cogeneration facilities.

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

  1. (a)

    Any person may operate a cogeneration facility without being subject to the jurisdiction or regulation of the commission if such person uses all of the electric energy, steam, or other form of useful energy produced at such cogeneration facility. The electric energy shall not be sold to any other person except as provided in subsection (b) of this Code section.#

  2. (b)

    Any person may operate a cogeneration facility and sell any excess electric energy to an electric supplier without being subject to the jurisdiction or regulation of the commission; provided, however, that nothing in this article shall except a person from compliance with federal law.#

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

Ga. L. 1979, p. 389, § 4; Code 1981, § 46-3-52; Ga. L. 1981, p. 808, § 1; Code 1981, § 46-3-53, as redesignated by Ga. L. 2001, p. 1149, § 1; Ga. L. 2002, p. 415, § 46.

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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, page 186; merge action: bound only; file SHA-256 53ab60ae5027.