Georgia runs opposite to Texas: electricity is not a choice market — Georgia Power, the EMC co-ops and a few municipal systems each hold their ground — while natural gas is where you choose, buying from a retail marketer while the pipes utility delivers. Water is as often county-run as city-run. Which of those applies to you is decided entirely by your address.
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Where each electric provider led our address-level sampling. Hover a city for its provider; click through for the full guide. Tap a legend entry to trace one provider across the state.
From our address-level sampling of 14 Georgia cities (2026-07-20). "Most common in" counts the cities where that provider was the leading answer.
| Utility | Provider | Most common in |
|---|---|---|
| ⚡ Electricity | Georgia Power | Atlanta, Augusta, Columbus, Macon, Savannah, Athens, Sandy Springs, Roswell, Alpharetta, Smyrna, Warner Robins, Valdosta |
| Sawnee EMC | Johns Creek | |
| City of Marietta | Marietta | |
| 🔥 Natural gas | Atlanta Gas Light | Atlanta, Augusta, Columbus, Macon, Savannah, Athens, Sandy Springs, Roswell, Johns Creek, Alpharetta, Marietta, Smyrna, Warner Robins |
| Liberty Utilities | Valdosta | |
| 💧 Water | North Fulton County | Roswell, Johns Creek, Alpharetta |
| Atlanta | Atlanta, Sandy Springs | |
| Augusta-Richmond Co Ws | Augusta |
Movers arriving from deregulated states look for an electricity plan to shop and can't find one — because in Georgia there isn't one. Your electric utility is fixed by territory: an investor-owned utility across most cities, an EMC (electric membership co-op) across much of suburbia and everything rural, or a city-run system in a handful of towns. You sign up with whichever one holds your address, and that's the whole decision.
Natural gas is the reverse. The pipes utility owns the lines, connects the meter and answers leak calls — but it doesn't sell you the gas. You choose a licensed retail marketer, and that's who bills you each month. Two companies, one hookup: keep the delivery utility's emergency line saved even though a different name is on your bill. Competitor guides regularly get this backwards, and it's the single most useful thing to understand before a Georgia move.
City-by-city breakdowns of who provides electricity, gas, water and sewer:
For most Georgia city addresses it's the investor-owned utility that holds your territory, with electric membership co-ops (EMCs) covering huge swaths of the suburbs and countryside, and a few cities running their own municipal systems. Georgia doesn't have retail electric choice for homes — the utility that holds your address is your utility — so the whole question comes down to which territory your address sits in.
Georgia flipped the usual model: the pipes company delivers every therm, but you buy the gas itself from a licensed retail marketer you pick. That means two names on the arrangement — the delivery utility that fixes leaks and connects meters, and the marketer that sends your bill. If you're new to the state, this is the part that surprises people most.
Often the county, not the city — a metro Atlanta address is as likely to be on a county water system as a city one, and consolidated governments like Columbus and Augusta blur the line entirely. It's the utility type that changes most often between neighboring addresses, so check yours specifically.
Use the address lookup on this page. It resolves your exact address against utility territory data and returns your electric, gas, water and sewer providers with contact details — more dependable than any city-level summary, including ours.
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Find my providersProvider data comes from our address-level utility lookup engine, aggregated from geographically spread sample addresses in each Georgia city. Data refreshed 2026-07-20. Territories vary address by address — always confirm yours with the lookup. Read how we verify provider data.