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Choice of Hala Moddelmog as Atlanta Chamber president well received

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By Maria Saporta

Atlanta business leaders enthusiastically welcomed the news that Hala Moddelmog will be the next president of the Metro Atlanta Chamber Thursday morning.

Moddelmog, 57, a Georgia native who has been the top executive at Church’s Chicken, Arby’s and the Susan G. Komen for the Cure, was the unanimous choice of the Chamber’s search committee, its executive committee and its board, according to Paul Bowers, the 2013 chair of the Chamber who is also president and CEO of Georgia Power.

Moddelmog will be the first woman to serve as president of the influential business organization, which was founded in 1859, and now has more than 4,000 company members in the greater metro Atlanta area. Moddelmog will succeed Sam Williams, who has served as president for 17 years.

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‘About Time’ — Richard Curtis’ film falls short of ‘Love Actually’ charm

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Every so often, a movie comes along that, if someone brings it up, you know they’re going to say how much they liked it. A good example? “Love Actually.” People who dislike it never bring it up.

“Love Actually” apparently never achieved Pet Peeve status — though a number of critics, smelling a crowd-pleaser, went out of their way to heap scorn on what I’ve always looked at as a friendly, eager-to-please, reasonably unpretentious picture.

So, when the ads for the new film “About Time” go out of their way to remind audiences that it’s from Richard Curtis, the same guy who wrote and directed, well, “Love Actually,” you can see they are counting on 10 years worth of good will (Yep, it came out that long ago).

Nothing wrong with that. The marketing department could also point out Curtis wrote “Notting Hill” (one of Georgia Power CEO Paul Bowers’ favorites) and “Four Weddings and a Funeral” (one of mine).

But “Love Actually” is the magic word (well, words). And “About Time” is not in the same ballpark. It’s not even in the same game.

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Green Tea Coalition points to fundamental shifts

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Last week’s capitol-steps pep rally for the Green Tea Coalition, a left-right, pro-solar alliance which has its roots in Rep. Jeff Chapman’s unsuccessful attempt to pass a bill limiting profits on cost overruns at the two new nuclear reactors being built by Georgia Power at Plant Vogtle, was one of several related and equally curious developments across the region this year.

Last month, with little advance notice, the Alabama Public Service Commission voted for what was described as the largest reduction in Alabama Power Co.’s allowed rate of return in 25 years.

Since then a lot of questions have been raised, and Alabama Power has basically said that nobody’s rates are going to go down any time soon.  But the mere fact that the Alabama PSC went through the motions of a rate reduction was a reflection of the political heat generated by the lone dissenting vote on the panel, Commissioner Terry Dunn, who had pressed to have testimony taken under oath in the hearings preceding the vote.

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Celebrating ‘Earth Day’ with good news blowin’ in the wind

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By Maria Saporta

The environment certainly seemed to be front and center on everyone’s mind on April 22 — the 43rd anniversary of Earth Day.

Georgia Power announced that it had reached a deal to import wind energy from Oklahoma to Georgia by 2016. The move was applauded by several environmental organizations across the states — groups that don’t often find themselves on the same side as Georgia Power.

“We applaud Georgia Power for taking a strong step forward on 21st century clean energy solutions,” said Colleen Kiernan, director of the Georgia Chapter of the Sierra Club.

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Column: Woodruff Arts Center campaign passes the halfway point

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By Maria Saporta

Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on Friday, February 1, 2013

The Woodruff Arts Center’s annual campaign is more than halfway there.

The campaign has raised more than $4.8 million in the first four months of its eight-month effort. The campaign goal is $9.2 million.

The Coca-Cola Co. and the Georgia Power Foundation have each donated $500,000.

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Column: SunTrust’s Bill Rogers to lead 2013-2014 Woodruff Arts campaign

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By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on Friday, December 7, 2012

One of the key civic positions in Atlanta is chairing the annual Woodruff Arts Center corporate campaign, a job that has been held by some of Atlanta’s top executives.

Currently, Paul Bowers, president and CEO of Georgia Power, is leading the campaign, with a goal of raising $9.2 million by May.

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Column: Woodruff Arts Center campaign is most ambitious ever

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By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on Friday, November 9, 2012

The Woodruff Arts Center has set its most ambitious corporate campaign goal in its history — $9.2 million — compared with the $9 million raised in the last campaign.

The campaign, which is being chaired by Paul Bowers, president and CEO of Georgia Power, will go until next spring.

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Delta’s Richard Anderson to chair Metro Atlanta Chamber in 2014

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By Maria Saporta

The Metro Atlanta Chamber has done it again.

The influential business organization has lined up one of the state’s top business leaders to chair the Chamber in 2014 — Richard Anderson, CEO of Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines.

The executive committee of the Metro Atlanta Chamber voted Thursday morning to make Anderson the 2013 chair-elect, positioning him to lead the organization in 2014.

It continues the Metro Atlanta Chamber’s string of having some of the most powerful executives in that leadership role. Consider this. In 2011, John Brock, CEO of Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE), was the chair. The 2012 chair is Carol Tome, the chief financial officer of the Home Depot. And the 2013 chair will be Paul Bowers, president and CEO of Georgia Power.

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Change in utility’s solar energy plans prompts ideological pirouette

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How inconvenient, for the power company to change its tune on solar energy in the middle of an election year.

As recently as last week, Georgia Power CEO Paul Bowers was predicting to the Athens Banner-Herald that renewable energy will still be only a “sliver,” maybe two to four percent, of total electrical generation, a half century from now. Georgia Power and its parent, the Southern Co., have long resisted any government efforts to mandate renewable energy efforts, and stoutly opposed any efforts to establish solar energy operations even distantly in competition with their monopoly.

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Coal plant fight, like TSPLOST vote, points to new coalitions

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Last week, on the same day Metro Atlanta voters were turning down the TSPLOST referendum, the Mississippi Supreme Court denied a motion by Mississippi Power (which like Georgia Power is a Southern Co. subsidiary) to charge its customers interim rates to continue construction on its big coal-gasification plant in Kemper County. These seemingly unrelated stories, the TSPLOST vote and the Kemper coal fight, actually have considerable resonance with each other.

Like the plan for funding new projects which was rejected in nine of Georgia’s 12 transportation districts, the Kemper project has enjoyed the backing of a wide swath of Mississippi’s business and political establishment. Former Gov. Haley Barbour made the plan to mine lignite from a large nearby site, convert it into a gas and burn it a major part of an aggressive state policy to encourage energy-related projects of all kinds. The project, with its new technology, was the beneficiary of some $300 million in federal funds.

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Earth Day’s ideals are evident in DeKalb County’s new renewable fuel facility at its Seminole landfill

by David Pendered

Methane gas captured in a landfill in DeKalb County will be transformed into fuel for vehicles at a futuristic facility where the ceremonial ribbon was cut Monday.

This example of renewable bio-fuel is just the sort of technology that was hoped for by participants of the first Earth Day, in 1970. Sunday marks the 42nd celebration of an event that now involves millions of people in at least 192 countries.

DeKalb’s new facility, which will create compressed natural gas from the methane gas, joins another methane recovery operation at the county’s Seminole Road Landfill. The first recovery facility captures methane for use by Georgia Power, which burns it to drive turbines that create electricity.

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Column: Woodruff Arts Center surpasses $8.8 million fundraising goal

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By Maria Saporta
Friday, June 10, 2011

The Woodruff Arts Center has 8.8 million reasons to celebrate.
After two years of falling short of its campaign goal, the Woodruff Arts Center surpassed its $8.8 million goal of its 2010-2011 annual corporate campaign.

But that’s not all. For the first time in its history, the center received its first $500,000 corporate contribution. And amazingly, the center actually had three corporate donors giving $500,000 — The Coca-Cola Co., the Georgia Power Foundation and United Parcel Service Inc.

“In the midst of national and local reports of declining support for the arts, the Woodruff has a great story,” said Kurt Kuehn, the chief financial officer of UPS

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Southern Co.’s David Ratcliffe challenges his CEOs to “help facilitate” a pact on water

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By Maria Saporta

Southern Co. Chairman and CEO David Ratcliffe has had a bit of a balancing act ever since Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue tapped Georgia Power President and CEO Mike Garrett to lead the state’s efforts on finding a resolution to the water wars with Alabama and Florida.

And we now know how Ratcliffe is approaching this issue inside his company.

Southern’s subsidiaries operate in all these states, and the presidents of Georgia Power, Alabama Power and Gulf

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Business groups seek consensus on transportation

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The top business groups in the state have started to work more closely together to figure out if there can be consensus on a possible transportation funding bill.

The Georgia Chamber of Commerce reached out to the Metro Atlanta Chamber saying it wanted to work on a transportation funding bill that would fit inside the new transportation governance structure for both metro and statewide projects, according to Michael Garrett, chairman of the Georgia Chamber and president/CEO of Georgia Power.

“We feel that it is imperative for the chambers to find a proposal that we can

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CVC Board Members: Ambassadors for Corporate Citizenship

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By Doll Thomas, CVC Volunteer The Corporate Volunteer Council of Atlanta (CVC) is proud to announce its 2026 Board of Directors, an inspiring group of leaders dedicated to advancing corporate volunteerism and strengthening communities across metro Atlanta. Representing a diverse range of industries and expertise, this year’s board reflects the passion, innovation, and collaboration that […]

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New Flint Rising Conservation Assistance Fund looks to aid landowners in permanent conservation

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The Southern Conservation Trust (SCT) and Georgia Power are teaming up to create the Flint Rising Conservation Assistance Fund, a $300,000 community greenspace initiative that aims to help local landowners hoping to conserve their land in Fayette County and Coweta County, GA, the organizations jointly announced earlier this month. The Southern Conservation Trust, founded in […]

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Reporter’s Notebook: Long live EATS, Grant Park Monthly Market, Marietta Arts Council needs Executive Director

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EATS Reopens at Wild Heaven West End Brewery EATS, the Atlanta favorite that operated on Ponce de Leon Avenue for more than 30 years before closing recently has reopened inside Wild Heaven’s West End brewery at the Lee + White development. Wild Heaven Beer acquired the brand in late 2025, and the West End location […]

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