Georgia Power Electricity Rates: What a Month Costs on Every Plan

Work out your bill

Put in the kWh and the number of days from your bill, and the billing month. The order of the lines, and the rounding of each to the cent, follow the PSC’s own calculator for Residential Service. The three time-of-use plans also need to know when you use power. They start from an even spread over the clock, which you can change to match your habits. The table under the bill prices the same month on every plan.

What each line on the bill pays for

Your plan sets the first two lines on a Georgia Power bill, and everything else is added to them. The Basic Service Charge is $0.4603 a day, whatever you use. The energy charge is the price per kWh from your plan. Together those two make what the PSC calls the base bill, and two riders are worked out as a percentage of it. The Environmental Compliance Cost Recovery adds 13.02% to recover what Georgia Power spends meeting government environmental rules. Demand Side Management adds 1.20% for the residential energy-saving programmes the PSC has approved, and is reset each January.

Fuel Cost Recovery passes on what Georgia Power spends on fuel and bought power, at a rate the PSC sets in each fuel case: 3.81¢ a kWh on summer bills and 3.86¢ on winter ones. On a 1,000 kWh summer month it comes to $38.07. Last, the Municipal Franchise Fee is added as a share of everything above it: 3.08% inside city limits and 1.20% outside. The chart shows how a 1,000 kWh month splits.

Why summer kWh cost more

From October to May, Residential Service has one energy price, 8.21¢ a kWh before riders. From June to September it has three, and each is higher than the winter price: 8.77¢ for the first 650 kWh, 14.57¢ for the next 350 and 15.08¢ for anything over 1,000. Once riders and fuel are added, the 650th kWh on a July bill costs 14.3¢ and the 651st 21.1¢.

On this plan the season goes by the billing month, not the day of use. A bill for June is a summer bill even if most of its days fell in May, and a bill for October is a winter bill even if it covers a hot September.

Nights & Weekends, Overnight Advantage and Smart Usage

All three time-of-use plans have the same on-peak window: 2 to 7 p.m., Monday to Friday, from 1 June to 30 September. Independence Day and Labor Day are billed off-peak. From October to May there are no on-peak hours at all. Unlike Residential Service, these plans go by the calendar month in which you use the power, so a bill that runs from mid-May to mid-June is part winter and part summer; the calculator treats a bill as all one season. Nights & Weekends charges 30.35¢ for an on-peak kWh before riders and fuel, and 7.77¢ for every other kWh. With fuel and riders that is 41.1¢ against 13.0¢, so it pays off for a home that keeps its summer weekday afternoons light.

Overnight Advantage keeps the same on-peak price but splits the rest of the day. From 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. every day, all year, energy costs 2.23¢, or 6.2¢ all in. The other hours cost 10.36¢ (16.2¢ all in), more than Nights & Weekends charges for them. It suits a home that can put an electric car, a water heater or a pool pump on a timer. Smart Usage works differently: lower energy prices, 14.56¢ on-peak against 30.35¢ on the other two plans and 1.56¢ off-peak, plus $12.44 for each kW of the home’s highest 60-minute use in the month, at any hour. A home whose busiest hour reaches 10 kW pays $146.47 for that alone once riders are added, so it rewards spreading big loads apart more than moving them to the night.

Each of the three has a one-year term. Their fuel rates come from separate schedules that also vary by time of day.

“All in” adds ECCR (13.02%) and DSM-R (1.20%) to the energy price, then fuel, then the inside-city franchise fee (3.08%). On-peak hours on Independence Day and Labor Day are billed off-peak. Smart Usage also bills $12.44 for each kW of your highest 60-minute use in the month, at any hour and in any month.

PrePay, FlatBill and Pay by Day

PrePay swaps the monthly bill for a balance you top up, and needs a meter that Georgia Power can switch off and on remotely. It is not offered where losing power would put someone’s health or safety at risk. It has one energy price per season, 12.21¢ from June to September and 8.60¢ from October to May, by calendar month, with no summer tiers, and a daily charge of $0.66. FlatBill charges the same amount every month for a year. Pay by Day works out a year’s cost the same way and divides it by the days in the contract, and you pay it in advance. Both are priced from your expected use, worked out from your past use at the address and adjusted for normal weather, with a risk adder of at most 10% on the usage charges. You pay that adder even in a mild year, which is the price of a fixed number.

Help with the bill

The Income Qualified Discount takes up to $33.50 off a month’s bill: $24.00 off the non-fuel charges and $9.50 off fuel. It is open to a customer who is at least 65 with household income at or below 200% of the federal poverty level, who receives Social Security Disability Income or Supplemental Security Income, or who takes part in the federal Housing Choice Voucher Program (Section 8). The account has to be individually metered and in the customer’s name, and the credit cannot take a bill below zero. It applies on every residential plan, and the calculator above takes it.

When a National Weather Service heat advisory or excessive heat warning is in force for a county before 8 a.m., or forecast to be, PSC rules stop Georgia Power disconnecting homes there that day for non-payment (PSC). The rule pauses a disconnection; it does not cancel the debt.

Every rate change since 2019

The Georgia PSC publishes a Residential Service bill calculator, and the Internet Archive has kept copies of it since 2019. Each copy carries the rates it uses and a line saying when they took effect. Read across those copies, the PSC calculator shows 11 sets of rates. At 1,000 kWh, a summer month cost $135.41 on the rates labelled January 2019 and $182.72 now; the peak, $188.71, came with the rates of January 2025. The June 2026 changes took $5.99 off that summer month and $2.86 off a winter one. The $4.03 a month the PSC quoted for a 1,000 kWh home, an estimate by Georgia Power, falls between the two.

The dates in the chart are the PSC’s labels, and the calculator was not always updated at once. Its copies from June 2020 still show the rates labelled January 2019. A step may therefore appear a little later in the chart than it did on bills.

The decisions behind the steps

These six decisions shaped the chart. Each card gives the bill effect that was published at the time, and who estimated it; where the decision shows as a step in the PSC calculator, the card also gives that step at 1,000 kWh.

What can change next

Base rates are frozen through 2028, the PSC said in December 2025, but other parts of the bill can still move before then. Fuel rates can change between fuel cases: under the May 2026 settlement they can move by at most 40% above or below the approved rates before the next case. In the same settlement the PSC ordered a review of how Georgia Power credits revenue from its real-time pricing customers against fuel costs, to be finished by 31 December 2026. If the PSC moves money from base rates to fuel, the fuel line changes. The DSM-R percentage is updated every year, and the franchise fee can be, both from January; franchise-fee filings must be in by November. Georgia Power must file its next fuel case, FCR-28, by 28 February 2029.

Beyond 2028 the big question is data centres. In December 2025 the PSC approved 9,885 MW of new generation, most of it to serve new large customers such as data centres. The PSC says the agreement keeps those customers from raising rates for existing ones. Georgia Power agreed to backstop the new projects financially for 2029, 2030 and 2031, which the PSC says leaves it time to change or reverse the approval if the data-centre contracts are not signed (PSC). Whether that protection holds will show in the first rate case after the freeze.

Average price since 1990

The EIA figure is total residential revenue divided by kWh sold, so it averages all plans, all seasons and all riders together. For Georgia Power it was 7.5¢ in 1990 and hardly moved for 15 years: 7.6¢ in 2004. It passed 10¢ in 2008 and 12¢ in 2013, dipped to 11.6¢ in 2018 and 2019, then rose to 15.2¢ in 2022 and 16.3¢ in 2025. For the 12 months to August 2026 it was 16.4¢, up 118.4% on 1990, while the general price level went up 153.6%. In today’s money, the 1990 price was 19.0¢.

Georgia Power beside other Georgia utilities

Of the 40 largest utilities in the US, Georgia Power is 32nd by price, counting from the most expensive; the US average over the same 12 months was 18.0¢. Georgia’s own average, 15.2¢, takes in the electric membership corporations and city utilities as well, and the table lists every utility in the state that serves at least 10,000 homes.

EIA-861, 2025, homes buying their power from the utility itself. A year’s average, so the figure for this utility can differ a little from the 12 months above.

Outages

Leaving out major events, a Georgia Power customer was without power for 155 minutes on average in 2025; counting storms and every other day too, the figure was 287 minutes. The worst year since the EIA series began in 2013 was 1,516 minutes in 2024; Hurricane Helene crossed Georgia in September 2024.

Rooftop solar

12,412 Georgia Power homes had net-metered solar by 2025: just 0.5% of its residential accounts, with 82 MW of capacity on their roofs.

EIA-861 Net Metering: homes with solar panels on a net-metering arrangement at the end of each year.

Where Georgia Power serves

Georgia Power counted 2.5 million homes among its customers in 2025. The EIA lists it as serving 155 of Georgia’s 159 counties, and it is the only electric utility the PSC regulates.

EIA-861 Service Territory, 2025. A county on the list may be served only in part, and other utilities may serve the same county.

Method and checks

Every rate comes from Georgia Power’s tariff sheets for bills from June 2026, read on 10 November 2026: R-31, TOU-REO-19, TOU-OA-15, TOU-RD-12 and PPS-11, the fuel schedules FCR-27, TOU-FCR-7 and TOU-FCR-TP-5, and the ECCR-15, DSM-R-16, MFF, IQD-1 and OPT-8 riders. Our parser reads each value from the sheet text, checks the schedule name and billing month on each sheet, and stops if anything is missing. It then checks every Residential Service rate against the PSC calculator’s own figures, and its bill against a copy of the calculator’s arithmetic on 2,112 combinations of use, days, season, city limits and discount. They agree to the cent.

The calculator here goes further than the PSC’s in two ways: it prices the time-of-use plans and PrePay, and it uses the smart meter opt-out charge in OPT-8, $25.45 a month, where the PSC calculator still uses $25.03. Sales tax depends on where you live, so the totals leave it out unless you enter a rate. The history uses the same arithmetic on each set of rates in the archived calculators, with the interim fuel rider added to fuel where one applied.

Common questions

Data downloads

• Georgia Power, every month (CSV)
• All 40 utilities, latest figures (CSV)
• Citable archive on Zenodo (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.24071582): all 40 utilities, with field descriptions
• Dataset, code and history on GitHub

Citing this page

@dataset{say2026georgiapowerelec,
  author    = {Say, Jeremiah},
  title     = {Georgia Power electricity rates: monthly residential price since 1990},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {GreenCalculus},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.24071582},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.24071582}
}

Version history

• Version 1.0, 10 November 2026: first release, on Georgia Power’s tariff sheets for bills from June 2026 and the PSC calculator’s rates from January 2019 to June 2026.