Power Plants in Georgia

Georgia's power sector in numbers

Bywatts maps 104 operating power plants with 35.7 GW of nameplate capacity in Georgia. Natural Gas leads with 41% of that capacity across 26 plants, followed by Coal (32%) and Nuclear (11%). The inventory also includes 21 plants (5.3 GW) that EIA-860 lists as retired and 3 never built; the largest retired plant is WANSLEY (1,957 MW, retired 2022).

The largest operating plants are SCHERER (3,564 MW, Coal, GEORGIA POWER CO), PLANT BOWEN (3,540 MW, Coal, GEORGIA POWER CO) and PLANT MCDONOUGH (2,604 MW, Coal, GEORGIA POWER CO).

Of the 101 operating plants with a recorded commissioning year, 30 came online in 2000 or later and 7 in 2010 or later; the busiest decade for new capacity was the 2000s (11.9 GW).

The largest operators by operating capacity are GEORGIA POWER CO (24 plants, 19.0 GW), OGLETHORPE POWER CORPORATION (8 plants, 5.0 GW) and CAMS MACKINAW POWER OPERATIONS LLC (5 plants, 3.0 GW).

Retail electricity sales in Georgia reached 153.6 TWh in 2025, up 13.0% over ten years and up 2.4% year on year; residential customers took 41.3% of it. The average retail price across all sectors was 12.03 cents per kWh, up 25.1% since 2015.

The database also maps 473 named substations (1 of the 16 with a recorded voltage is rated 345 kV or above), 9 data centers (operators include Equinix, QTS Realty Trust and Colo at 55), 123 solar installers and 80 solar companies in Georgia.

Operating capacity by fuel

Retail electricity sales

Sources: HIFLD power-plant inventory (capacity, fuel, operator), EIA-860 (commissioning year, retirements, operable capacity), EIA retail sales and revenue series through January 2026. Counts are of plants Bywatts lists, not every generator in the state.