Georgia Power files 2025 Integrated resource plan forecasting massive fossil fuel, renewable energy growth to meet data centers demands.

Data centers are driving the building of gas-powered plants in the Southeast but it will leave ratepayers on the hook if higher energy needs do not materialize. A new report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis looked at utility and pipeline company plans in North Carolina,

Georgia Power Co. says it wants to keep burning coal to meet what it forecasts as the state’s increasing electrical demand.

Georgia Power projects that energy demand on its grid will grow by about 50% by the end of 2030 as large load customers, especially data centers, continue to locate in Georgia. The utility's current energy demand load is about 16,