Georgia marked 50 years of commercial nuclear power generation in 2026, with two plants, Plant Hatch near Vidalia and Plant Vogtle near Waynesboro, now supplying roughly a quarter of the state's electricity each year. Georgia Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company, reports that the units have operated with an average capacity factor of about 94 percent over the past decade, providing around-the-clock baseload generation for a state experiencing rapid economic and population growth.
Plant Vogtle is the centerpiece of that fleet. With the completion of Units 3 and 4, the first newly constructed nuclear reactors built in the United States in more than three decades, Vogtle became the largest nuclear power plant in the country, with four reactors and roughly 4.5 gigawatts of total generating capacity. The two new AP1000 units alone produce enough electricity to serve an estimated half-million homes and businesses, and the company projects the units will operate for 60 to 80 years.
Georgia Power has also signaled that its nuclear fleet will keep growing in capability. The utility's latest integrated resource planning proposes extended power uprates at Vogtle Units 1 and 2 and Hatch Units 1 and 2, adding about 112 megawatts of capacity between 2028 and 2034, and identifies additional nuclear generation as a long-term resource for meeting projected load growth from manufacturing and data centers across the Southeast.
Source: Georgia Power -- https://www.georgiapower.com/news-hub/press-releases/50-years-clean-reliable-nuclear-energy.html