Georgia Court of Appeals Judges Sara Doyle, Elizabeth Gobeil and Andrew Fuller were asked to determine how electric vehicle charging stations should be divided up between power utility companies on Thursday. Specifically, is the end user of the electricity the company selling the electricity as a unique service, as appellee Georgia Power Co. contends, or the individual drivers, as the appellant Sawnee Electric Membership Corp. argues?

Georgia is divided into different service areas and typically electric utility companies have the exclusive right to serve all consumers in that area—with limited exceptions. The charging stations in question are in the territory of Sawnee Electric, but the Superior Court of Fulton County determined Georgia Power would provide service under the "large load exception."

Presiding Judge Sarah L. Doyle, Georgia Court of Appeals (Courtesy photo)