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{{CoalSwarm}}'''Georgia Power''' describes itself as "an investor-owned, tax-paying utility that serves 2.25 million customers in all but four of Georgia's 159 counties." It is the largest of four electric utilities comprising [[Southern Company]].<ref>[http://www.georgiapower.com/about/home.asp Georgia Power: About Us"], Georgia Power website, accessed July 2009.</ref>
In 2006 the [[Savannah Electric & Power Company]], a separate subsidiary of [[Southern Company]], was merged into Georgia Power.{{fact}}
=== Transmission System ===
Georgia Power utilizes transmission lines carrying 115,00 volts, 230,000 volts and 500,000 volts. Georgia Power has interconnections with the [[Tennessee Valley Authority]] to the north, [[Alabama Power Company]] to the west, [[South Carolina Gas and Electric]] and [[Duke Energy]] to the east, and [[Florida Power and Light]] to the south.{{fact}}
== Georgia Power and Coal ==
Georgia Power operates [[Scherer Steam Generating Station]]. In January 2009, Sue Sturgis of the Institute of Southern Studies compiled a list of the 100 most polluting coal plants in the United States in terms of [[Coal waste|coal combustion waste]] (CCW) stored in surface impoundments like the one involved in the [[TVA Kingston Fossil Plant coal ash spill]].<ref name="iss">Sue Sturgis, [http://www.southernstudies.org/2009/01/coals-ticking-timebomb-could-disaster-strike-a-coal-ash-dump-near-you.html "Coal's ticking timebomb: Could disaster strike a coal ash dump near you?,"] Institute for Southern Studies, January 4, 2009.</ref> The data came from the EPA's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) for 2006, the most recent year available.<ref>[http://www.epa.gov/triexplorer/ "TRI Explorer"],] EPAU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, accessed January 2009.</ref>
Georgia Power asked the state's public service commission for approval to convert the coal-fired [[Plant Mitchell]] to run on wood fuel. If approved, the retrofit will begin in 2011 and the biomass plant will start operating in mid-2012. The 96-MW biomass plant will run on surplus wood from suppliers within a 100-mile radius of the plant, which is located near Albany, Georgia.{{fact}}
==Generating facilities==
Georgia Power owns and operates 14 fossil fueled generating plants, 20 hydroelectric dams, and two nuclear power plants, which provide electricity to more than 2 million customers. <ref>[http://www.georgiapower.com/about/plants.asp"Generating Plants"], Georgia Power website, accessed August 2009.</ref>
===Fossil fuel power plants===
