Dr. Josh Tolbert
An engineer. Not another politician. Four engineering degrees, including a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, and more than 15 years inside and around the same kinds of power operations that keep Georgia running: nuclear, natural gas, coal, and renewables.
Georgia's energy future deserves engineering. Not guesswork.
Degrees
Engineering
& Energy Infrastructure
The PSC Needs an Engineer at the Table
The Georgia Public Service Commission decides what families and businesses pay for electricity and natural gas, and whether the lights stay on when demand spikes. Those decisions will shape reliability and affordability for decades.
Powering Georgia's Future stands for affordable energy, a stronger industrial base, and an all-of-the-above approach that keeps Georgia in control of its own energy future. Dr. Josh Tolbert is the candidate with the technical background to deliver it.
He's pledged to diversify Georgia's energy grid with no prejudice toward or against any one source.
Technical Competence, Proven
Josh holds four engineering degrees, including a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, and he is a licensed Professional Engineer in multiple states.
Real Plans, Not Talking Points
Josh has worked on system design, reliability analysis, safety evaluations, and failure analysis at working power plants, across nearly every major type of generation.
Ratepayers First
Josh has campaigned on holding utility proposals to engineering standards and making sure costs land on the customers who create them, so data centers and other large users pay their fair share – not more, and not less – and large project overruns are avoided.
Most commissioners learn the power system on the job.
Josh Tolbert has spent his career:
- Building ItEngineering power systems and leading a nuclear reactor design team
- Analyzing ItReliability, safety, and cost reviews at working power plants
- Fixing ItInvestigating equipment failures as an expert for 10+ years
Engineering Degrees
Including a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, the discipline behind turbines, boilers, reactors, and the thermodynamics of every power plant in Georgia.
Licensed Professional Engineer
A licensed PE in multiple states, held to the legal and ethical standards of the profession.
Nuclear Energy Executive
Former Chief Technology Officer and VP of Engineering for a small modular reactor company, working directly with U.S. and international regulators.
Engineering Professor
Taught thermodynamics, statics, manufacturing, and welding at Kennesaw State University.
Expert Witness, 10+ Years
Called on to investigate power equipment and industrial failures. Work that demands objectivity and technical rigor.
Every Major Energy Source. Josh Has Worked On It.
Design, safety, and reliability work at real power plants. He judges each energy source on facts, not politics.
- Nuclear PowerLed engineering at a nuclear reactor company
- Natural GasCombined-cycle natural gas plants
- CoalCoal-fired power plants
- Oil & GasOil and gas systems
- SolarSolar and other renewables
- BiomassBiomass-fueled generation
- GeothermalGeothermal energy systems
His campaign pledges reliability and affordability first. Every technology gets evaluated on realistic engineering analysis and backed only when the benefits to Georgia ratepayers are measurable, according to Dr. Tolbert's public statements.