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{{#Show badges: | CoalSwarm | nuclear spin}}'''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.<ref>[http://outdoorlighting.georgiapower.com/docs/Bright%20Ideas%20Summer%2006.pdf "Bright Ideas"] Georgia Power’s Outdoor Lighting newsletter, Summer 2006.</ref>
==Coal Plant Conversion==
{{#evpev:youtube|OJeCK6IqHLg|400|right|Biomass Conversion at Mitchell Plant.|right|200frame}}
In March 2009 the Georgia Public Service Commission approved Georgia Power's request to convert its [[Mitchell Steam Generating Plant (Georgia)]] Unit 3 from coal-fired to biomass. Located near Albany, Georgia, the facility will reportedly be able to produce 96 megawatts of power once the conversion is completed in June 2012, making it one of the largest biomass power plants in the United States. Georgia Power says it will draw on wood fuel from suppliers within a 100-mile radius of the power plant, and plans to begin the conversion by spring 2011.<ref>[http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/news/news_detail.cfm/news_id=12363 "Georgia Power Wins Approval to Switch Coal Plant to Biomass Power"] U.S. Department of Energy Website, March 25, 2009</ref> Plant Mitchell is one of many [[Coal plant conversion projects]] throughout the U.S.
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