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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
JANUARY 3, 1931
HERE ARE THE FACTS
ABOUT YOUR ELECTRIC SERVICE AND
■ WHAT IT COSTS
AVERAGE ELECTRIC RATES
GEORGIA vs. THE NATION
Customers ot the Georgia Power Company pay an
average of 1.97 cents pei kilowatt hour. The national
average is 2.58 cents,
THE AVERAGE COST OF ELECTRIC SERVICE
TO CUSTOMERS OF THE GEORGIA POWER COM-
PANY (S 23.8 PER CENT LESS THAN THE NA
TIONAL AVERAGE.
This is all the more remarkable since it is generally
Recognized that, in the electric business just as in any
Other ousiness, it costs less to serve a thickly settled
section than it does to serve a thinly settled section
■with few targe cities, such as Georgia, (SEE COMPAR
ISON BELOW BETWEEN RESIDENTIAL RATES
IN RINGGOLD. GA.. AND IN NEW YORK CITY.
Also comparison between industrial power rates in
Athens, Ga„ and those in many of the nation s lead
ing industrial centers.!
RESIDENTIAL RATES
' GEORGIA vs. THE NATION
Electric service is the one household necessity which
costs less than it did in 1913. It is the smallest item in
the family budget as a result of steady reductions m
Tates.
Customers or the Georgia Power Company pay an
average of 5.77 cents a kilowatt hour for residential
service, by contrast with the national average of 6.07
cents.
In New York City a reduction of residential rates
has been proposed and probably will be adopted. If it
goes into effect, the average residential rate of New
Yorkers will be 6.95 cents, by comparison with 5.77
cents now being paid by you.
CITIZENS OF RINGGOLD, GA, ARE PAYING
LESS FOR THEIR ELECTRIC SERVICE THAN
NEW YORKERS, AND THEY WILL STILL BE
PAYING LESS IF THE NEW YORK RATES ARE
REDUCED
INDUSTRIAL POWER RATES
GEORGIA vs. THE NATION
Industrial power rates are lower on the average in
the South than in any other section of the nation, ex
cepting only the Pacific coast, and Georgia’s industrial
power rates are lower than those of any other state
in the South. (The Pacific coast is favored by nature
over all other sections in the matter of an abundance
of water power in the great rivers rushing down from
the mountains to the ocean.!
* In a comparison of industrial power rales in all cities
Of over 100,008 population in the nation, ATLANTA
STANDS EIGHTH in low rates. Of the seven cities
with lower industrial power rates than Atlanta, one is
Buffalo, which has Niagara Falls at its doorstep, and
the other six are all Pacific coast cities with their abun
dance of hydro-electric power—Seattle, Spokane, Los
Angeles, Portland. Oakland and San Francisco.
Again Atlanta’s low rates—and the same industrial
power rates prevail over most of Georgia—are the
more remarkable because they are strikingly lower than
the rates charged in most of the cities which are recog
nized as the nation’s industrial centers.
ATHENS, GA, FOR EXAMPLE, HAS AN AVER
AGE INDUSTRIAL POWER RATE LOWER THAN
f HAT OF ANY INDUSTRIAL CITY IN THE NA-
ION WITH THE EXCEPTION ONLY OF THE
SEVEN CITIES LISTED ABOVE.
1 As a result of rate reductions, customers of the Georgia Power Company have saved since
1926 a total of $3,784,468 in the cost of their electric service under what the same serv-
ice would have cost them if the rate reductions had not been made.
2 Your residential electric rate is materially lower than the natiohal average rate, lower than
the rate in New York City, lower than the rate in many other big cities.
3 Farm electric rates in Georgia are among the lowest in the nation.
4 Wholesale power rates in the South average lower than in any section of the nation ex
cept the Pacific coast, and Georgia’s wholesale power rates are the lowest in the South.
5 The average rate paid by all classes of customers of the Georgia Power Company is ma
terially lower than the national average.
In rates paid, in steady reductions of rates, in quality of service rendered, customers
of the Georgia Power Company are more favored than the customers of almost any
electric utility—private or municipal — in the nation!
HERE ARE THE FIGURES
(All figures quoted are the most recent available. We will be
quite glad to have you have them checked by competent au
thorities)
COST IN CENTS PER KILOWATT HOUR
Residential service..
Industrial power ....
Average rates for all
classes of service..
Georgia Power Co.
(first six months,
1930)
5.77c
1.173c
1.97c
NaPl Average
(year ending
May 31, 1930)
6.07c
1.544c
2.59c
REDUCTIONS IN RATES
Since 1926, one reduction in your rates after
another has been made by the Georgia Public
Service Commission. All classes of our custom
ers have benefited by these reductions. In these
five years, our customers have saved or will
save before the end of 1930, a total of MORE
THAN THREE AND A HALF MILLION DOL
LARS under what they would have paid if the
rates had not been reduced. Out of this three
and a half million dollar saving, over two mil
lion dollars will be saved during 1930 alone, so
that the total aggregate saving will be even
greater next year.
IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE YOU BUY
WHICH HAS STEADILY DECREASED IN
PRICE THESE PAST FEW YEARS? Is there
anything else you buy which has decreased in
price in such a large ratio and at such a rapid
rate?
Electric rates of the Georgia Power Com--
pany, as a result of these reductions, are lower
than ever before, lower than in 1913, lower than
in 1809, lower than in 1895.
Residential electric rates were reduced ap
proximately 20 per cent in one year. Our resi
dential customers paid $600,000 less in 1929
than they would have paid for exactly the
same service under the rates existing in 1928.
The Company is earning less than 5 per cent
return on its investment in electric service fa
cilities. A “fair return” according to the courts,
is at least 8 per cent,
IN ADDITION TO LOWER RATES
These are some of the facts about your electric serv
ice which will convince you that your rates are among
the lowest in the nation, possibly the lowest when con
sideration is given to the expense of supplying electric
service to a section which, comparatively speaking, is
thinly settled, with few big cities and few iarge in
dustries.
BUT RATES ARE NOT ALL!
Many other things enter into the worth and value
of a public utility—or any other business—to the com
munity it serves.
The Georgia Power Company is the largest developer
in Georgia. During 1930, it invested in new construc
tion work the largest single amount ever spent on new
development by any one business enterprise in any one
year in the whole history of Georgia. This huge sum is
new wealth added to the wealth of Georgia.
The Georgia Power Company during 1929 paid $8,«
719,053 in wages and salaries to its 5,532 employes, all
citizens of Georgia.
The Georgia Power Company during 1929 bought
from Georgia merchants and dealers over $7,000,000
worth of materials and supplies.
The Georgia Power Company is carrying on a con
tinuous campaign, and has been for many years, to in
duce new industries to locate in Georgia. In the four
years from 1926 through 1929, over SIXTY MILLION
DOLLARS was invested in new industries in the terri
tory served by this Company.
The Georgia Power Company is constantly improving
its service and constantly spreading it out to the
smaller towns and the farms, bringing to these smaller
communities the same quality of electric service as in
the large cities and at the same rates.
The Georgia Power Company is A Citizen Wherever
We Serve—and a good citizen!
F. B. CULLEY,
Division Manager.
Geo
POWER
COMEANY i
— A CITIZEN WHEREVER WE SERVE