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Yates — Power plant · Gas, steam turbine · Georgia Power CoYates — Gas, combustion turbine · GA · 1,448.4 MW · 0.0 km away
  • Combustion
  • Under construction
  • Operating
  • 10 · 100 · 1,000 MW

Yates

Power plant · Gas, steam turbine

Key facts

Power plant · Gas, steam turbineran 17% of 2025 Operating
Capacity
Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
Commissioned
1974
Net generation, 2025
1,187,177 MWh
Grid
230 kV to Georgia Power Co (SOCO)
Location
Coweta County, Georgia
Operated by
Georgia Power Co

Output

Net generation MWh by year, 2001 to 2025
Fuel burned MMBtu by year, 2001 to 2025
  • Gas
  • Coal
  • Oil

Operations detail

Details

Who’s behind it

Owner
Southern CO

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Technology
Gas, steam turbine source: “Natural Gas Steam Turbine”
Age
52 years since 1974
Unused energy
5,885 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
11,578 Btu/kWh 2025
All 6 attributes from EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
AttributeValue
EPA greenhouse gas reporting (GHGRP)
EPA FRS ID
110000357319
Subparts reported
C, D
NAICS code
221112
Subpart PP (CO2 supply)
No
Subpart RR (geologic sequestration)
No
Subpart UU (CO2 injection)
No
Reporting year
2023
GHGRP facility ID
1001511
Fuel burned (MMBtu), 202513,744,762
Capacity factor, 20250.168
Heat rate (Btu/kWh), 202511,577.7
Net generation (MWh), 20251,187,177
Balancing authority codeSOCO

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
679.9 MW
Generators retired
5
Capacity still in service
807.4 MW
GeneratorTechnologyNameplateStateDate
1Conventional Steam Coal122.5 MWRetiredApril 2015
2Conventional Steam Coal122.5 MWRetiredApril 2015
3Conventional Steam Coal122.5 MWRetiredApril 2015
4Conventional Steam Coal156.2 MWRetiredApril 2015
5Conventional Steam Coal156.2 MWRetiredApril 2015

Grid

EIA-860 2025Grid fieldsAs the plant reported them to EIA-860 for 2025 (Schedule 2).
Grid voltage at the plant
230 kV
Transmission or distribution system owner
Georgia Power Co
Balancing authority
Southern Company Services, Inc. - Trans
NERC region
SERC
Transmission lines within 25 km (10)
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

2 companies2
CompanyRoleShareAs ofSource
Georgia Power Co Operator EIA-860M
SOUTHERN CO Owner 100.0% 31 Dec 2023 EPA GHGRP

Timeline

  • Stated Units 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 scheduled to retire, 679.9 MW · EIA-860M
  • In service · EIA-860M

Sources

5 sources

Sources EIA-860M · LBNL · EIA · EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory · EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program — facility register with parent-company shares (Envirofacts pub_dim_facility; FLIGHT)

Sources

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Yates Under construction Gas, combustion turbine 0.0 km 1,448.4

Sources EIA-860M

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