Mayor David Theiss

Mayor, City of Ellaville, GA Contact Information 355 E. Oglethorpe St., Ellaville, GA 31806 (229) 938-7195 dltheiss@mchsi.com Mayor and City Council The legislative authority of the government of the City of Ellaville is vested in a City Council comprised of the Mayor and five Council members, each elected to four-year
terms. Council Members Councilor Charles Sherwood Councilor Billy Lightner Councilor Janet Ellis Councilor Carlton Wilson Councilor Leslie Haynes-Minter City of Ellaville Schley County — County Seat; 3.2 square miles Population 1,609 (2000 Census); 1,810 (2012) EIA 2008 Data on Electric Sales 2,093 electric consumers; $2,567,000 electric revenue; 26,173 MWH sales; 9.81 cents/KWH average retail price Ellaville Electric Department The City of Ellaville, a member of MEAG Power, provides low cost and dependable electric service to residents, businesses, and industry in Ellaville. Ellaville Electric Capacity/Energy Supply Information 1.0419% of Addison Generating Facility (nominal 150MW) 20-yr power purchase agreement 1 of 20 Participants in the agreement 0.307% of Project One Generation shares; 0.383% of Project One 2014 Transmission shares 0.285%, 0.293%, 0.307% of Project Two, Three, Four shares 0.28299% of Combined Cycle shares; 1 of 37 Participants in agreement 0.32880% of embedded Simple Cycle shares 0.0%, 0.30225%, 0.30225% of Project M, J, P shares [Appears that Ellaville has roughly the same energy mix as MEAG, as they have about 0.3% of each of the Projects. 2013 energy data indicate that more than half of Ellaville energy is emissions-free.]EPA comment on the proposed CO2 Regulations

I am Mayor David Theiss of Ellaville, GA.

Ellaville, Georgia is a unique community with a blend of small town hospitality and large city conveniences. People can walk from their houses and shop for all their daily needs for food, gifts, hardware, clothing, and do their banking. It's a place where local business owners still greet you by name and family, faith and community involvement is not a thing of the past. [direct quote from ellavillega.org ]

Ellaville is one of many public power communities in Georgia. Our community's electric department provides electricity at retail to our homes, businesses, and schools.

Ellaville does not generate its own electricity. We receive our electric supply from the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia, also known as MEAG Power or just MEAG. MEAG is a not-for-profit entity established under Georgia's statutes that provides electricity at wholesale to most of Georgia's public power communities.More than half of the electricity supplied to us by MEAG

is emissions-free — generated from nuclear and hydropower resources. And we will be getting additional emissions-free electricity in the near future from participation in the Plant Vogtle nuclear project, satisfying our needs for many years to come.

We are very concerned with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's proposal for carbon dioxide emission regulations. These proposed regulations appear to go far beyond what the federal Clean Air Act actually requires, and will adversely affect our low- and fixed-income citizens.

• The very clean fossil-fuel generating units that supply part of our community's electricity would need to change their levels of output, regardless of cost and reliability effects.

• The existing and new nuclear-generated electricity that supplies Ellaville would come under EPA's regulatory umbrella.

• Ellaville would have to acquire new renewable electricity resources that we clearly don't need.

• Ellaville's rate-payers would bear the cost of this superfluous wind and solar power generation that is much more expensive than what we already have.• Ellaville's retail electric customers would have to

meet new energy efficiency requirements that accelerate in stringency year by year.

We urge EPA to drop its current proposal — and to do what the Clean Air Act calls for — that is, to have Georgia and other states carefully review what could be economically done to improve energy efficiency at individual fossil generating units on a case by case basis. That is something that we can all support.