In November 2025, Georgia did something it hadn't done in 25 years. Democrats flipped two seats on the Public Service Commission, ending a quarter-century Republican stranglehold on the body that sets your power bill. One of the people who made that happen is Peter Hubbard, a clean energy engineer who spent six years going before the Georgia PSC without pay, making the case that the math didn't add up and consumers were getting squeezed. And eventually he decided that wasn't enough, so he ran for the seat himself and beat a sitting Republican incumbent by 20 points.

That matters to Alabama for one very specific reason. Georgia Power and Alabama Power are both subsidiaries of Southern Company. That means they share the same parent company, answer to the same shareholders, and when it comes to fighting off accountability, they run the same playbook. The same tactics you've seen used here, the same arguments about reliability, the same instinct to restructure the game when the pressure gets too hot. Georgia just lived through all of it. And despite it all, the people of Georgia STILL won.

Meanwhile, Alabama Power hasn't had to justify its rates in a public hearing since 1982. Our customers pay the some of the highest electric bills in the entire country. And when advocates started making enough noise that real reform looked possible, the response wasn't transparency. It was two consecutive bills designed to give the governor more control over the commission and keep Alabama Power's books firmly closed.

In this episode, Commissioner Hubbard breaks down exactly how Georgia flipped those seats, what Southern Company did to fight back, and what a real blueprint for change looks like in a state where the utility has been running the show for decades. Got a hot take? Think you’re not wrong about something? I want to hear it. Call me and leave a voicemail at (205)538-3202 and follow along on Instagram @HesNotWrongPodcast, and let’s keep the conversation going.

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