Power Plants in Georgia

Georgia's power-plant fleet holds 43.5 GW of nameplate capacity across 267 plants, ranking eighth among the 50 states and DC. This capacity is what the equipment could produce running flat out, not what it actually generated — a megawatt of solar and a megawatt of nuclear appear the same here and produce very different amounts of electricity over a year.

Natural gas dominates the fleet at 42.6% of capacity with 18,550 MW across 30 plants, followed by nuclear at 15% with 6,506 MW in two plants and coal at 14.2% with 6,172 MW in two plants. Solar holds 13.2% of capacity across 154 installations, hydro contributes 8.3% across 30 plants, and battery storage accounts for 1.4%. The largest plants by capacity are Vogtle, a nuclear station with 4,658 MW, Bowen, a coal plant with 3,499 MW, Jack McDonough, a natural-gas facility with 2,848 MW, Scherer, another coal plant with 2,673 MW, and Edwin I Hatch, a nuclear station with 1,848 MW.

The fleet spans more than a century: Morgan Falls, a hydro plant, came online in December 1903, while McGrau Ford Battery Storage Facility began operation in August 2026. The largest plants range from Vogtle's first unit in 1987 to Bowen and Jack McDonough's commissioning in 1971.