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Tim Echols
2011 - Present
2025
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Tim Echols (Republican Party) is a member of the Georgia Public Service Commission, representing District 2. He assumed office on January 1, 2011. His current term ends on December 31, 2025.
Echols (Republican Party) is running in a special election to the Georgia Public Service Commission to represent District 2. He is on the ballot in the special general election on November 4, 2025. He advanced from the special Republican primary on June 17, 2025.
Echols completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Tim Echols was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from North Clayton High School. Prior to his election to the Georgia Public Service Commission in 2010, Echols spent 15 years in the private sector. He is the founder of "TeenPact" and continues to serve on the Board of Directors. His career experience includes working as an adjunct professor.[1][2]
Education
- M.A. in mass communication, University of Georgia, 2009
- M.A. in nonprofit organization, University of Georgia, 2006
- B.A. in English, University of Georgia[1]
Political career
Georgia Public Service Commission (2011-present)
Echols has served as a member of the Georgia Public Service Commission since 2011.[1]
Elections
2025
See also: Georgia Public Service Commission election, 2025
General election
Special general election for Georgia Public Service Commission District 2
Incumbent Tim Echols and Alicia Johnson are running in the special general election for Georgia Public Service Commission District 2 on November 4, 2025.
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Democratic primary election
Special Democratic primary for Georgia Public Service Commission District 2
Alicia Johnson advanced from the special Democratic primary for Georgia Public Service Commission District 2 on June 17, 2025.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Alicia Johnson | 100.0 | 125,727 |
| Total votes: 125,727 | |||
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Republican primary election
Special Republican primary for Georgia Public Service Commission District 2
Incumbent Tim Echols defeated Lee Muns in the special Republican primary for Georgia Public Service Commission District 2 on June 17, 2025.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Tim Echols | 75.8 | 47,986 |
 | Lee Muns | 24.2 | 15,354 | |
| Total votes: 63,340 | |||
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2022
Georgia was scheduled to hold an election for two of five seats on the Georgia Public Service Commission on November 8, 2022. The general election was canceled after United States District Court judge Steven Grimberg ruled on August 5, 2022, that the Georgia Public Service Commission's at-large elections violate the Voting Rights Act and that the scheduled 2022 general election should not be held using that system. The state submitted an appeal to stay the decision until after the general election but withdrew the appeal on August 19, 2022, meaning the two races did not appear on the 2022 ballot.[3][4]
A primary was held on May 24, 2022, before the general election was canceled.
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Georgia Public Service Commission District 2
Patty Durand defeated Russell Edwards in the Democratic primary for Georgia Public Service Commission District 2 on May 24, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Patty Durand | 60.4 | 392,357 |
| Russell Edwards | 39.6 | 256,769 | ||
| Total votes: 649,126 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Georgia Public Service Commission District 2
Incumbent Tim Echols advanced from the Republican primary for Georgia Public Service Commission District 2 on May 24, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Tim Echols | 100.0 | 1,033,061 |
| Total votes: 1,033,061 | |||
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2016
Echols filed to run for re-election to represent District 2 on the Georgia Public Service Commission in 2016. He defeated challengers Kellie Austin and Michelle Miller in the May 24 Republican primary.[5] No Democrats filed to run, making Echols the presumptive winner of the November 8 general election.
Tim Echols defeated Eric Hoskins in the Georgia public service commission election.
| Georgia Public Service Commission, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican |  Tim Echols |
66.81% | 2,322,353 | |
| Libertarian | Eric Hoskins | 33.19% | 1,153,582 | |
| Total Votes | 3,475,935 | |||
| Source: Georgia Secretary of State | ||||
| Republican primary for Georgia public service commissioner, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | ||
| Tim Echols |
68.9% | 370,101 | ||
| Michelle Miller | 17.9% | 96,337 | ||
| Kellie Austin | 13.1% | 70,486 | ||
| Total Votes | 536,924 | |||
| Election results via 11 Alive 2,680 of 2,682 precincts reporting. | ||||
Issues
Echols has spoken out against the nuclear waste stored in Georgia. He believes that it should be reprocessed and harnessed instead. Echols has also encouraged the development of renewable resources such as biomass, and solar energy. He has also worked with organizations in Georgia committed to ending sex trafficking.[6]
2010
Echols won election to Georgia Public Service Commission District 2 on November 2, 2010.[7]
| Georgia Public Service Commission, District 2, 2010 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican | Tim Echols |
55.6% | 1,406,713 | |
| Democratic | Keith Moffett | 40.7% | 1,029,614 | |
| Libertarian | Jim Sendelbach | 3.8% | 94,950 | |
| Total Votes | 2,531,277 | |||
| Election results via Georgia Secretary of State | ||||
Campaign themes
2025
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Tim Echols completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Echols' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Shortly after graduating from UGA, Tim and his wife Windy founded TeenPact, a training experience for conservative high school students. The program began at the Georgia Capitol and now operates in all 50 states, having trained 115,000 students. After building TeenPact, Tim ran for and was elected to statewide office in 2010.
The PSC's primary job is energy regulation. When Tim took office, Georgia was 34th in solar power. Now, the state is 7th in the nation for installed solar. In 2020, Conservatives for Clean Energy dubbed Tim the "Solar Architect of Georgia."
Tim has also created the Clean Energy Roadshow that has traveled the state every summer for the past 14 years. This educational event helps commuters, businesses and municipal governments evaluate alternative fuel for their transportation and residential use.
In December 2017, Tim authored the motion to keep the expansion project at Plant Vogtle moving forward. Georgia has now finished the project.
Tim has lobbied for the freezing of rates after numerous increases due to the pandemic, the finishing of the reactor, and needed upgrades. That freeze has now happened.- Moratorium on Rate Increases
- More Smart and Clean Energy
- Additional nuclear reactors to replace aging coal plants
I have solar on my home and have helped Georgia move forward with a non-subsidized solar program that has made financial sense for Georgia.
I also have been at the forefront in fighting human sex trafficking. I created the "Unholy Tour" that helps policy makers see first-hand the harms of human trafficking.
-Creating policies that won't be clawed back
-Sustainability, both financially and environmentally
-Collaboration enables Acceleration
-Being kind and not snarky
-Being true to my values
-Solving problems for people, even if it is not in my job description
-Making sure our regulated utilities have what they need to be successful
-Creating rate plans that help people have more control over their lives
-Doing more with less on the grid
In regulating rates, the Commission does not guarantee profits to service providers. It is the company's responsibility to make prudent, sound business decisions to produce earnings. When regulated companies bring a rate request before the PSC, it may be taken up first by one of the Commission's standing committees on which the commissioners serve: Telecommunications, Facilities Protection, Energy, or Administrative Affairs.
Assisting the commissioners are experts on utility operations. These experts may provide testimony and make recommendations at rate, arbitration or other proceedings. To protect the public interest and to fulfill its responsibilities, the Commission may:
Conduct investigations, hearings, and gather evidence
Inspect properties, books and papers of regulated companies
Determine costs
Make and enforce rules
Issue orders to enact Commission decisions
Institute judicial proceedings to enforce orders, rules and regulations.
A: No.
Q: Did you check for blood pressure?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for breathing?
A: No.
Q: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
A: No.
Q: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
A: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
Q: But could the patent have still been alive nevertheless?
Governor Brian Kemp is at the top
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2022
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2025 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Georgia Public Service Commission, "Tim Echols," accessed March 21, 2013
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 26, 2025
- ↑ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "Federal judge rules PSC election ‘unlawfully dilutes’ Black voting power," August 5, 2022
- ↑ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "November PSC elections off after U.S. Supreme Court ruling," August 19, 2022
- ↑ Georgia Secretary of State, "Qualifying Candidate Information," accessed March 14, 2015
- ↑ Tim Echols Public Service Commission, "Tim on the issues," accessed May 7, 2016
- ↑ Georgia Secretary of State, "Official Results of the Tuesday, November 02, 2010 General Election," accessed March 26, 2013
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