Generating Plants

Georgia Power owns a network of 18 generating plants and 20 hydroelectric dams spread across the state, providing low-cost, reliable electricity to 2.3 million customers.

Georgia Power has invested more than $4 billion in transmission and distribution (power lines) since 1991 Between 1990 and 2015 Georgia Power will invest $ 7 billion on environmental control technologies.

Georgia Power is an active participant in the U.S. Department of Energy's Clean Coal Technology program, having pioneered new computer software that automatically reduces nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions, improves the performance of fossil fuel-fired plants and reduces the amount of coal its plants burn. Facts and figures on plant generation and more.

Fossil
Coal, the most abundant fuel source in the United States, accounts for most of Georgia Power's generating capacity. Georgia Power also has oil and gas generation.

Total coal and gas generation use
How fossil plants work

Hydro
Hydroelectric power was once the principal source of power in the U.S. Electricity industry. These facilities played a significant role in spurring Georgia's industrial development and continue to produce power today.

Total hydro generation use
Lakes and recreation
How hydro plants work

Nuclear

Vogtle Units 3 and 4 will be the nation's first nuclear power units in more than 30 years. On March 17, 2009, the Georgia Public Service Commission approved Georgia Power's request to certify the construction of two new nuclear power units at its Plant Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant near Waynesboro, Georgia. The company received an Early Site Permit (ESP) and a Combined Construction and Operating License (COL) for potential new units at the Vogtle site. from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in August 2009.

The ESP allows the NRC to review and pre-approve the plant site for construction and will allow the company to conduct design and construction evaluations and other site-specific assessments before actual construction begins. The COL provides the company with one license to construct and operate a new plant based on an NRC pre-approved design at a specific site.

Plant Vogtle is jointly owned by Georgia Power, Oglethorpe Power Corporation, the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia and Dalton Utilities.

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