As Georgia continues to grow and the energy landscape rapidly evolves, one thing remains constant – we understand the important role we play in serving millions of Georgians and take our commitment to serving them seriously.
On January 31, Georgia Power filed its 2025 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), which details the company’s plan to meet the energy needs of customers and support the state’s expected continued extraordinary growth. In the IRP, the company has proposed necessary investments in its generation fleet and transmission system to help ensure Georgia Power can continue to provide its customers with the reliability and resiliency they deserve and expect, as well as demand-side and customer programs.
Reliably and economically meeting the needs of a growing Georgia.
Supporting Georgia’s strong economic growth
Georgia continues to be the number one state in the country in which to do business and we are in the midst of an extraordinary period of economic growth. We continue to see positive short and long-term economic development trends, with many of the businesses coming to the state bringing large electrical demands. Over the next six years, we project approximately 8,200 megawatts (MW) of electrical load growth — an increase of more than 2,200 MW by the end of 2030 when compared to projections in the 2023 IRP Update. Through the longstanding, effective IRP process, and constructive regulation by the Georgia PSC, we continue to refine our flexible, comprehensive plan to support Georgia’s continued economic growth and provide Georgians with clean, safe, reliable, and affordable power for decades to come.
Investing in diverse generation resources
Building upon previous IRPs, the 2025 IRP proposes a reliable, economical, and diverse resource mix that will help ensure Georgia Power can continue to meet its 2.8 million customers’ evolving and growing energy needs. Proposed resources include new capacity RFPs to meet needs in the early 2030s; additional renewable (solar) and storage resources; enhanced customer programs such as customer-sited solar plus storage and expansion of the Distributed Energy Resource (DER) program; as well as continued investment in our existing nuclear, natural gas, coal, and hydro power plants as we aim to gain operational efficiencies and more generation capacity for customers.
Enhancing the power grid to increase reliability and resiliency
The 2025 IRP includes Georgia Power’s 10-year transmission plan, which identifies the transmission improvements needed to maintain a strong and reliable transmission system to move energy from new and existing power plants to customers across the state. The company’s 10-year plan proposes new transmission resources across more than 1,000 miles of transmission lines, improving the system’s efficiency and resiliency, and providing the energy infrastructure needed for a growing state. Additionally, the company has proposed a variety of economic and innovative solutions, including new grid enhancing technologies to help meet increasing grid capacity needs and enable further reliable integration of the state’s growing amount of solar generation and BESS.
Serving a growing Georgia while balancing high reliability and affordability for customers
Approval of the 2025 IRP is expected to provide the necessary investments in our generation resources and transmission infrastructure to support continued economic growth in Georgia while maintaining the reliability our customers deserve and expect and balancing affordability. The company has proposed significant updates to its customer-focused programs in the 2025 IRP, including a robust demand-side strategy with programs designed to enhance energy efficiency and provide customers with more control over their energy usage with an increased focus on specific offerings for income-qualified customers.
Previous filing
2023 Integrated Resource Plan Update
Approved by the Georgia Public Service Commission in April 2024, the 2023 IRP Update was prompted by updated energy projections for the state. Resources approved in the final plan included battery energy storage systems (BESS), including BESS charged with solar energy; new and expanded distributed energy resources (DER); demand response programs; as well as conventional power plants.
2023 IRP Update Incuded
- Certification of a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Mississippi Power.
- Certification of a PPA with Santa Rosa Energy Center LLC for power from an existing natural gas-fired combined cycle generating asset located in Pace, Florida.
- Expansion of the Company’s implementation of BESS, including BESS co-located with existing solar.
- Construction of new solar resources to be co-located with new BESS.
- Construction of new simple-cycle combustion turbines at Georgia Power’s Plant Yates. The company is proposing to locate the new units at Plant Yates to leverage its current infrastructure and recognize operational efficiencies.
- Addition of new and expanded DER and demand response programs.
- Acquisition of an additional ownership interest in an existing generation asset within the Southern Company footprint.
2022 Integrated Resource Plan
Approved July 21, 2022, this IRP delivers a comprehensive strategy to both transform Georgia's energy sources and help to ensure that the state's network of transmission lines and grid infrastructure continues to deliver energy to Georgians – both today and in the future.
2022 IRP Programs
Georgia Power continues to implement the programs approved in the 2022 IRP. In 2024, the company plans to issue a 500 MW energy storage system RFP, with resources anticipated to be online by the end of 2028, as well as an “all-source” RFP to address capacity needs for the 2029 through 2031 period.
In the 2022 IRP, the Georgia PSC provisionally authorized Georgia Power to develop, own, and operate the 265 MW McGrau Ford BESS project. The company continues to pursue the development of this facility and plans to seek final approval from the Georgia PSC by the end of 2024, with commercial operation of the facility projected by the end of 2026.
In addition to new generation resources, the 2022 IRP also included multiple innovative customer programs designed to promote reliability and resiliency, such as the DER Customer Program. The DER Customer Program enables participating customers to subscribe to a resiliency service provided by company-owned, operated and maintained DER.
2022 Rate Request
This request enables us to continue making critical investments in strengthening and further securing the electric grid, transforming our power generation to include cleaner and more economical energy resources and continue improving the customer experience.
