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Allatoona

Hydro power plant · Bartow County, Georgia

Nameplate capacity
87 MW
Rank in Georgia
#65
of 264 plants
In service since
1950
January 1950

Details

Primary fuel
Hydro
Technology
Conventional Hydroelectric
Operator
USCE-Mobile District
County
Bartow County
Generating units
3
Share of state capacity
0.20%
Rank among hydro plants in Georgia
#8 of 30
EIA plant code
760

Generating units

Individual generating units at Allatoona
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
1Conventional Hydroelectric42 MW35 MW1950Operating
2Conventional Hydroelectric42 MW35 MW1950Operating
AConventional Hydroelectric2.0 MW2.0 MW1950Operating

Nameplate is the maximum rated output; summer capacity is what the unit can reliably deliver on a hot day, which is typically lower.

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About this data

From EIA’s inventory of operable generators, May 2026 release. Capacity is nameplate — the maximum rated output of the equipment, not what the plant actually generates over a year, which depends on how often it runs. A 87 MW solar plant and a 87 MW nuclear plant have the same entry here and produce very different amounts of electricity.

“In service since” is the earliest in-service date among the units still listed, so a site rebuilt around newer equipment can read as younger than the site itself. All Georgia power plants · What Georgia actually generates