Georgia Power is by far the worst electric company with which I've ever been forced to do business. We never have a day go by without an outage. This week, we've had two hours-long outages. The voltage bounces all over the place. We've had to pay hundreds of dollars on numerous UPSes in order to protect several appliances and computer equipment, else they may be destroyed by GA Power's incompetence. We also believe their bad power--when it's up at all--is responsible for the poor lifetimes we've had on incandescent bulbs of late. (One must wonder if this is purposely allowed in order to promote the use of poisonous fluorescent bulbs.) The government has seen fit to grant power companies illegal monopolies, so we're stuck with GA Power until we can become self-sufficient. To this end, if you have information on reasonably priced alternatives, post 'em here.

Note that 24/7/365 generators are hard to find or quite expensive for the average homeowner. Standby generators simply cannot handle the strain. I know of a turbine-driven version that would work; one moving part and that's on air bearings. There are also natural gas or propane powered fuel cells for commercial buildings (zero moving parts), but I have not found one for residential yet. Anyway, feel free to post helpful findings and links here. Also feel free to send GA Power a nasty-gram about their incompetence.