Power plants and the grid in Georgia
Georgia has 268 power plants with 40.7 GW of capacity, natural gas the largest share at 16.3 GW. The map shows 130 data centers in Georgia. Its interconnection queue holds 168 active requests for 38.3 GW.
Capacity by fuel
268 power plants with 40.7 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Natural gas: 16.3 GW from 30 plants (40%)
- Nuclear: 6.3 GW from 2 plants (15%)
- Coal: 5.8 GW from 2 plants (14%)
- Solar: 5.7 GW from 155 plants (14%)
- Pumped storage: 2.6 GW from 4 plants (6%)
- Hydro: 1.3 GW from 26 plants (3%)
- Oil: 1.2 GW from 22 plants (3%)
- Biomass: 927 MW from 23 plants (2%)
- Battery storage: 605 MW from 3 plants (1%)
- Other: 8 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Vogtle: Nuclear, 4.5 GW
- Bowen: Coal, 3.2 GW
- Scherer: Coal, 2.6 GW
- Jack McDonough: Natural gas, 2.5 GW
- Edwin I Hatch: Nuclear, 1.8 GW
- Thomas A Smith Energy Facility: Natural gas, 1.4 GW
- McIntosh Combined Cycle Facility: Natural gas, 1.3 GW
- Wansley Combined Cycle: Natural gas, 1.2 GW
- Rocky Mountain Hydroelectric Plant: Pumped storage, 1 GW
- Tenaska Georgia Generation Facility: Natural gas, 945 MW
Largest plants near Atlanta
- Jack McDonough: Natural gas, 2.5 GW, 11 km away
- State Farm Support Center East: Oil, 11 MW, 40 km away
- Morgan Falls: Hydro, 11 MW, 24 km away
- Allatoona Substation #10: Battery storage, 10 MW, 48 km away
- MAS ASB Cogen Plant: Natural gas, 7 MW, 11 km away
Largest plants near Augusta
- Vogtle: Nuclear, 4.5 GW, 41 km away
- Wilson: Oil, 298 MW, 42 km away
- Clearwater Paper Corporation - Augusta: Biomass, 79 MW, 15 km away
- White Oak Solar, LLC: Solar, 77 MW, 49 km away
- Hobnail Solar: Solar, 70 MW, 28 km away
Planned and under construction
21 generators planned, under construction or testing, 6.6 GW in all, not counted above.
- Solar: 4.2 GW
- Natural gas: 2.2 GW
- Battery storage: 134 MW
Grid operators
- Southern Company (SOCO): 258 plants
- SEPA: 6 plants
- Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA): 3 plants
- South Carolina Electric & Gas Company (SCEG): 1 plant
Data centers
130 data center sites on the map.
- Fulton County: 34 sites
- Douglas County: 28 sites
- Fayette County: 9 sites
- Newton County: 8 sites
- Gwinnett County: 7 sites
- Cobb County: 5 sites
- Coweta County: 4 sites
- Whitfield County: 4 sites
- Columbia County: 3 sites
- Henry County: 3 sites
- Rockdale County: 3 sites
- Operators with the most sites: Microsoft (10), Quality Technology Services (8), Meta (6), Switch (6), T5 Data Centers (6), Flexential (5), Stack Infrastructure (5), DataBank (4), Google (4), QTS (4)
Interconnection queue
168 active requests to connect 38.3 GW of new generation and storage, and 36 suspended requests, from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Queued Up data.
- Solar: 16.3 GW in 102 requests
- Natural gas: 15.6 GW in 33 requests
- Battery storage: 5.9 GW in 24 requests
- Nuclear: 291 MW in 8 requests
- Other: 70 MW in 1 request
Sources
Power plants: EIA-860M (US); NRCan NACEI (Canada, Mexico); WRI GPPD (Mexico); OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik (Canada, Mexico gap fill); USGS USWTDB/USPVDB; EPA eGRID; Natural Earth admin-1; HIFLD control areas; location attributes from WorldPop (R2025A), Global Solar Atlas PVOUT, Global Wind Atlas 4, USFS Wildfire Hazard Potential, the USGS National Seismic Hazard Model and the previous publish's lines and substations; water distances from OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik; gas distances and county queue from the previous publish's EIA gas pipelines and LBNL Queued Up requests; nearest city from Natural Earth populated places; cooling degree days from NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county normals; elevation and slope from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, via AWS Open Data); water stress from WRI Aqueduct 4.0; ozone nonattainment from the EPA Green Book; drought from the U.S. Drought Monitor; tribal land from US Census TIGER/Line. License: ODbL (derivative database; EIA content is public domain, NRCan OGL-Canada, WRI GPPD CC BY 4.0; location attributes from WorldPop, Global Solar Atlas, Global Wind Atlas, LBNL Queued Up and WRI Aqueduct CC BY 4.0, USFS, USGS, EIA, NOAA, EPA, US Census and Natural Earth public domain, Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. and Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, the U.S. Drought Monitor courtesy of NDMC)
Places gazetteer (cities, airports, regions): Natural Earth populated places; OurAirports; Natural Earth admin-1; Wattlas curated places. License: Public domain
Data centers: Epoch AI (CC BY); OpenStreetMap via the public Overpass API (ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors); Ringmast4r Global-Data-Center-Map (custom permissive license, attribution required); location attributes from WorldPop (R2025A), Global Solar Atlas PVOUT, Global Wind Atlas 4, USFS Wildfire Hazard Potential, the USGS National Seismic Hazard Model and the previous publish's lines and substations; gas distances and county queue from the previous publish's EIA gas pipelines and LBNL Queued Up requests; nearest city from Natural Earth populated places; generation within 20 km from the previous publish's plants; cooling degree days from NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county normals; elevation and slope from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, via AWS Open Data); water stress from WRI Aqueduct 4.0; ozone nonattainment from the EPA Green Book; drought from the U.S. Drought Monitor; tribal land from US Census TIGER/Line. License: CC BY; ODbL; custom permissive; WRI Aqueduct CC BY 4.0; USFS, USGS, EIA, NOAA, EPA, US Census and Natural Earth public domain; Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. and Airbus Defence and Space GmbH; the U.S. Drought Monitor courtesy of NDMC
Interconnection queue requests: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and GridTracker, "Queued Up". License: CC BY 4.0
States and provinces (simplified polygons): Natural Earth 10m admin-1. License: Public domain