The Southern Israelite. (Augusta, Ga.) 1925-1986, June 15, 1931, Image 19

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the same DEPENDABLE SERVICE the same UNIFORM LOW RATES for every city and town on our lines This Company’s Industrial Power Rates Now I8.3% Below the National Average Twenty-six hydro-electric plants on the rivers of Geor gia and eighteen fuel plants throughout the state are banded together in one close- knit system to insure the de pendability of your electric service. Should one plant falter for an instant, another takes up its work. Many generating stations, of different kinds, in various localities, have been provided in order to give the greatest possible assurance of dependable, steadily-flowing power to you. Backing up these 44 plants are eight others in reserve, as well as the great systems of adjoining states, with which our lines are interconnected for your further protection. When the demand arises, at a moment’s notice, power can be brought from distant stations to help do Geor gia’s jobs. This practically limitless supply of electric energy is at your constant command—at the instantaneous call of every customer on our lines. The average cost per kil owatt hour of industrial power unde r the new rates of this Company is 1 .261 cents. The national average is 1 .51 1 cents per kilowatt hour. This Company's indust rial power rates are 18.3 per cent he low the na- tional average! Residential electric rates of the Georgia Power Company have been reduced outre than 20 per cent in the past two years. ONE PRICE TO ALL The rates you pay for this energy are the same rates paid by the other 400 communities we serve, in every classifica tion—industrial, commercial and residential. Our industrial rates are now uniform in the greatest cities and the smallest towns. And the rates are uni form to all customers taking the same class of service. Any city or town on our lines can compete for industrial development—dollar for dollar, horsepower for horsepower—with any other city or town in the vital factor of cheap, de pendable, abundant electric power. Georgia POWER COMPANY Every city and town we serve has this de pendable service on tap—in amounts tiny or tremendous—the split second it is needed. CITIZEN W H E R EVER W E SERVE