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.