Electric South > Georgia
Resources: A measure of total energy production and consumption per capita
Market: The cost of consumption, measured in electricity prices and gasoline taxes
Infrastructure: Capacity to generate and refine energy sources; miles of pipelines
Georgia has no appreciable fossil fuel resources despite its proximity to the southern tip of the Appalachian coalfields and oil and gas basins.
Georgia gets most of its coal by rail from Wyoming, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia and Illinois.
Production trillion btu
Oil
Gas
Coal
Wind
Solar
Hydro
Biofuel
Nuclear
net energy Production trillion btu
Consumption trillion btu
Oil
Gas
Coal
Renewable
Nuclear
Gasoline Tax total state + federal, 2014
GA
USA
Key Policies
Does not have a renewable energy portfolio standard.
Requires specially blended gasoline be sold for use in metropolitan Atlanta's 45-county region.
Requires a permit and compliance bond for oil and gas well drilling. Permits fees are $25. Bond payments are flexible and may be as much as $50,000 per well.
Electricity net production, trillion btu
GA
USA