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Asset classes
- Transmission Line80,968
- Power Plant32,429
- Substation / Converter7,614
- Oil & Gas Field7,055
- Coal / Uranium Mine5,382
- Pipeline4,951
- Cement Plant3,513
- Data Centre3,283
- Iron & Steel Plant1,293
- LNG Terminal1,198
- Grid Storage965
- Iron Ore Mine949
- Chemical Plant868
- Interconnector704
- Export Terminal519
- Refinery279
- Storage / Tank Farm38
- Oil / Commodity Contract19
- Hydrogen Project18
- Carbon Capture (CCS)16
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Power Plant
McDonough Steam Generating Plant
25th-largest power plant in United States of 3,831 · top 3% worldwide (#662 of 29,849)
- Operator
- Georgia Power
- Owner
- Georgia Power Co
- Status
- operating
- Capacity
- 2,766 MW
- Fuel
- gas
- Commissioned
- 2011
Comparable power plants · United States · 3,831 ranked
- #1Fermi America Project Matador power station6.0 GW · gas
- #23Peach Bottom nuclear power plant2.8 GW · nuclear
- #24Miller Steam Plant2.8 GW · coal
- #25McDonough Steam Generating Plant2.8 GW · gas
- #26Bruce Mansfield power station2.7 GW · coal
- #27Clean Hydrogen Works LA-2 Facility2.7 GW · gas
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Bull Sluice Substation
- Its voltage
- 500 kV
- Distance
- 18 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 500 kV
- Line operator
- Georgia Power
- Substations in range
- 7
Mapped grid infrastructure from OpenStreetMap, whose coverage is excellent in some regions and sparse in others. Nothing shown here means nothing is mappednearby — not that the site is unconnected. Lines are matched on a segment’s midpoint, so a corridor passing directly overhead can be missed; this under-reports rather than invents.
Co-located infrastructure · within 25 km
- McDonough Steam Generating Plant0 m · Power Plant · 598 MW · coal
- Atlanta Cement Plant585 m · Cement Plant
- QTS Atlanta Data Center 17.2 km · Data Centre
- QTS Atlanta Data Center 27.3 km · Data Centre
- United States (US-FLA-FPC) – United States (US-SE-SOCO) interconnection8.4 km · Interconnector · 300 MW
- United States (US-SE-SEPA) – United States (US-SE-SOCO) interconnection8.4 km · Interconnector · 513 MW
- United States (US-CAR-SC) – United States (US-SE-SOCO) interconnection8.4 km · Interconnector · 819 MW
- CenturyLink11 km · Data Centre
- Bull Sluice Substation18 km · Substation / Converter
- 500 kV line18 km · Transmission Line
- Bull Sluice - Big Shanty 500kV19 km · Transmission Line
- Villa Rica - Union 500kV #119 km · Transmission Line
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)