Electric South > Georgia

Resources Market Infrastructure Policy

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

46th Resources
26th Market
9th Infrastructure

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.

state-georgia

Production trillion btu

0
Oil
0
Gas
0
Coal
0
Wind
0.10
Solar
8
Hydro
10
Biofuel
356
Nuclear

net energy Production trillion btu

-2,182
+374 Produced
2,556 Consumed

Consumption trillion btu

913
Oil
624
Gas
436
Coal
227
Renewable
356
Nuclear

Gasoline Tax total state + federal, 2014

GA
$0.45
USA
$0.46

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

-235
7.85¢
GA
8.81¢
USA