This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WABE , Atlanta’s NPR station. Ten candidates are vying for two seats on the Georgia Public Service Commission in the May 19 primary. Early voting is already underway. The commission oversees utilities, including telecommunications, natural gas, and electricity, and has final say over how Georgia Power, the state’s largest electric utility, makes energy and what it charges customers. This gives commissioners substantial power over Georgians’ energy bills and the state’s climate future, because burning fossil fuels to make electricity is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. By the PSC’s own description , “very few governmental agencies have as much impact on peoples’ lives as the PSC.” Still, elections for the commission have rarely received much attention. That changed last year.…