Plant Vogtle's four reactors near Waynesboro, Georgia now generate more than 30 million megawatt-hours of electricity each year, supplying power to over 1 million homes and businesses across Georgia Power's service territory at a combined generating capacity of 4,800 megawatts. The math underscores how much electricity a single large nuclear site can contribute to a regional grid once fully built out, even after a construction process that ran years behind schedule and roughly $17 billion over its original budget.

The plant's final all-in cost of approximately $30 billion makes it one of the most expensive power infrastructure projects completed in US history on a per-project basis, though supporters point to its output as evidence that new large-reactor nuclear construction remains technically achievable in the United States after a three-decade gap with no new reactors coming online. Cost recovery for the project has been spread across Georgia Power's customer base through multiple rate cases before state regulators.

Nationally, nuclear power continues to supply a significant share of carbon-free electricity generation even as data center and AI-driven demand growth strains grid capacity in multiple regions. The Vogtle data point is increasingly cited in national discussions comparing the economics of large-reactor construction against the smaller, factory-built small modular reactor designs currently working through NRC licensing.

Source: Georgia Power -- https://www.georgiapower.com/about/energy/plants/plant-vogtle.html