- Combustion
- In development
- Operating
- 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW
Map
- Combustion
- In development
- Operating
Scherer: location and 2 exact-grade projects within 25 km. Basemap: Protomaps, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Scherer
Power plant · Coal
Key facts
Power plant · Coalran 33% of 2025 Operating- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1982
- Net generation, 2025
- 7,682,536 MWh
- Grid
- 500 kV to Georgia Power Co (SOCO)
- Location
- Monroe County, Georgia
- Operated by
- Georgia Power Co
Output
- Coal
- Oil
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- Technology
- Coal source: “Conventional Steam Coal”
- Age
- 44 years since 1982
- Unused energy
- 15,733 GWh 2025Unused energyA lead, not a guarantee: MW × hours × (1 − capacity factor) for the latest year (EIA-923), gas, coal and oil plants only. Air-permit run-hour caps, heat rate (cost to run) and capacity-market or reliability obligations can rule it out.
- Heat rate
- 11,055 Btu/kWh 2025
All 7 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Gem |
|
| EPA greenhouse gas reporting (GHGRP) |
|
| Fuel burned (MMBtu), 2025 | 84,928,193 |
| Capacity factor, 2025 | 0.328 |
| Heat rate (Btu/kWh), 2025 | 11,054.7 |
| Net generation (MWh), 2025 | 7,682,536.0 |
| Balancing authority code | SOCO |
Retirement
EIA-860M September 2026StatusSome generators have retired; the rest of the plant is still in service. As of EIA-860M for September 2026.- Capacity retired
- 891 MW
- Generators retired
- 1
- Capacity still in service
- 2,673 MW
| Generator | Technology | Nameplate | State | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Conventional Steam Coal | 891 MW | Retired | January 2022 |
Grid
EIA-860 2025Grid fieldsAs the plant reported them to EIA-860 for 2025 (Schedule 2).- Grid voltage at the plant
- 500 kV
- Transmission or distribution system owner
- Georgia Power Co
- Balancing authority
- Southern Company Services, Inc. - Trans
- NERC region
- SERC
Transmission lines within 25 km (1)
Can the connection be reused?
A plant that retires usually leaves its substation, transmission connection and interconnection agreement behind, and those may be reusable by a new project at the same site. FERC Order No. 845 lets an interconnection customer use surplus interconnection service at an existing site, and some transmission providers' tariffs let a replacement resource take over a retiring unit's interconnection service, usually within a set time after the retirement. Whether any such right still exists here, who holds it and on what terms depends on the owner, the transmission provider and timing; this page does not establish any of that.
Ownership
10 companies12| Company | Role | Share | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oglethorpe Power Corporation | Owner | 40.0% | Dec 31, 2023 | EPA GHGRP |
| Dalton Utilities | Owner | 0.9% | Dec 31, 2025 | EIA-860 |
| Georgia Power Co | Owner | 30.6% | Dec 31, 2025 | EIA-860 |
| Municipal Electric Authority - (GA) | Owner | 20.1% | Dec 31, 2025 | EIA-860 |
| Oglethorpe Power Corporation | Owner | 40.0% | Dec 31, 2025 | EIA-860 |
| Florida Power & Light Co | Owner | Dec 31, 2025 | EIA-860 | |
| JEA | Owner | Dec 31, 2025 | EIA-860 | |
| SOUTHERN CO | Owner | 30.6% | Dec 31, 2023 | EPA GHGRP |
| MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC AUTHORITY OF GEORGIA | Owner | 20.1% | Dec 31, 2023 | EPA GHGRP |
| NextEra Energy | Owner | 8.3% | Dec 31, 2023 | EPA GHGRP |
| Gulf Power Co | Owner | 8.3% | Dec 31, 2025 | EIA-860 |
| Georgia Power Co | Operator | EIA-860M |
Timeline
- Stated Unit 4 scheduled to retire, 891 MW · EIA-860M
- In service · EIA-860M
Sources
7 sourcesSources EIA-860M · GEM · LBNL · EIA · EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT) · EIA-860 Annual Electric Generator Report — Schedule 4 Owner (ownership shares per generator), plus Plant/Generator schedules · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Sources
- EIA-860M
- GEMGlobal Integrated Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, September 2026 release (https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-integrated-power-tracker), CC BY 4.0. Modified by Inframation: TransitionZero-sourced rows removed; statuses and technologies mapped to Inframation's vocabulary; figures aggregated. Copyright © Global Energy Monitor. Global Integrated Power Tracker, September 2026 release. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- LBNLYin, Nait Belaid & Heleno (2026), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, OEDI, CC BY 4.0: A Harmonized Geospatial Dataset of U.S. Transmission Lines: Linking FERC Form 1 and HIFLD, 1994-2024. Modified by Inframation: HIFLD-side fields only, names re-cased, coordinates rounded.
- EIASource: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity bulk data (Form EIA-923 monthly plant series)
- EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT)
- EIA-860 Annual Electric Generator Report — Schedule 4 Owner (ownership shares per generator), plus Plant/Generator schedules
- EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Around this plant
Nearby
within 25 km| Project | Kind | Away | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smarr Combined Cycle Energy Facility Announced | Gas, combined cycle | 10.0 km | 804 |
| Rumble Road Energy Center Postponed | Gas, combined cycle | 10.1 km | 660 |
Sources EIA-860M