Georgia Public Service Commission v. Turnage

CARLEY, Justice.

Jeff Turnage and two others filed a petition with the Georgia Public Service Commission (Commission), requesting that body to direct Georgia Power Company (Georgia Power) to halt the construction of an electrical substation near their residential properties. The Commission dismissed that petition for lack of jurisdiction, finding that the neighboring property owners did not show that, in this proceeding, the exercise of authority over the siting of a particular substation bears a rational relationship to the accomplishment of the purposes which the Commission was created to…