As of April 7, 2026, Georgia regulators approved the Customer Identified Resource (CIR) program, which allows energy customers to bring clean generation resources onto the system in exchange for renewable energy certificates and credit for the energy value of the resource. [1] The framework allows up to 3 GW of customer-identified resources through 2035, representing the majority of Georgia Power’s plan to procure 4 GW of new renewables over the course of the same time period. The eligible projects may be located in other states as long as they can deliver power to Georgia Power under an approved interconnection framework. The CIR program builds on Georgia Power’s Clean and Renewable Energy Subscription program, which allows customers to purchase a pro-rata share of the production of renewable resources that are procured through the company’s utility-scale renewable requests for proposal process. Then the utility retires the RECs on the customer’s behalf. According to Nidhi Thakar, CEBA’s vice president for policy, this bring-your-own-resource program can be scaled nationally to bring new energy resources to the system more quickly.
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