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TUCKER, Ga., March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Oglethorpe Power Corporation President and Chief Executive Officer Thomas A. Smith and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Elizabeth B. Higgins will discuss 2008 results and 2009 activities during a conference call at 11:00 a.m. Eastern on Thursday, April 2, 2009. Investors, media and the public may view a live internet webcast or join via telephone. How to Participate Joining Via Telephone: -- Domestic Toll-Free Dial-in...
ATLANTA, Feb. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Oglethorpe Power Corporation announced today that it has reached agreement with Dynegy Inc. to acquire that company's Heard County Power Generation Facility and associated purchase power off-take contract for $105 million. This natural gas-fired peaking facility is located in Heard County, Georgia and has a generating capacity of approximately 500 megawatts. It has been serving the needs of several of Oglethorpe Power's member cooperatives since 2003...
ATLANTA, Feb. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Oglethorpe Power, the nation's largest power supply cooperative, today announced that it has named Lori K. Holt of Indianapolis as vice president, fuels & energy. In that role, she will be responsible for coal and natural gas procurement and hedging, biomass fuel procurement, operational interfaces and management of contracts, among other duties. Ms. Holt joins Oglethorpe Power from ACES Power Marketing in Carmel, In., where, as manager of...
ATLANTA, Feb. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Oglethorpe Power Corporation, the nation's largest power supply cooperative, has named Keith D. Russell to the newly created position of senior vice president, construction. Russell, of Gardendale, Al., joins Oglethorpe Power from Southern Company Generation, where he served as general manager of construction services. Southern Company Generation is a business unit of Atlanta-based Southern Company. In his new role, Russell will oversee...
TUCKER, Ga., Feb. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Facing the biggest natural disaster in the state's history, Kentucky has called upon EMCs in Georgia for the second time in recent days to send additional crews and equipment to restore electricity to approximately 500,000 cooperative consumers. Last week, 12 EMCs from Georgia and Georgia Transmission Corp. sent nearly 100 line workers to help sister cooperatives repair extensive damage in the aftermath of the worst and most destructive storm to...
TUCKER, Ga., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Personnel from 12 electric membership corporations (EMCs) in Georgia and Georgia Transmission Corp. are headed to Kentucky to help the state restore power to areas hardest hit by the recent winter storm. "Being an electric co-op means calling upon your neighbors during emergencies," says Jim Wright, Georgia EMC Vice President of Training, Education & Safety. "We have an unwritten agreement that says if we're in trouble, they help us. In...
Oglethorpe Power is planning to build as many as three 100MW biomass electric generating facilities in Georgia, US. According to the company, designed to utilize woody biomass, the power plants will be carbon-neutral and provide power to Oglethorpe Power's 38-member co-operatives, which supply electricity to nearly half of Georgia's population. Oglethorpe Power has secured options for five potential sites in Appling, Echols, Warren and Washington counties. The first two biomass power plants...
TUCKER, Ga., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Oglethorpe Power Corporation (OPC), the nation's largest power supply cooperative, today announced plans to build as many as three 100 megawatt (MW) biomass electric generating facilities in Georgia. Designed to utilize woody biomass, one of the state's most abundant renewable resources, the power plants will be carbon-neutral and provide power to OPC's 38 member cooperatives, which supply electricity to nearly half of Georgia's population. "With our...
By JAKE ARMSTRONG ATLANTA - Georgia Power filed a plan with state regulators Friday that, if approved, would nearly double the output of nuclear power at Plant Vogtle and could lead to one of the largest wood-burning biomass power plants in the country. In a filing with the Public Service Commission, Georgia Power said adding two 1,100-megawatt nuclear reactors to the two existing reactors at Plant Vogtle would add $12 to customers' bills when the reactors come online in 2018. The company...
ATLANTA, Aug. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Georgia Power today asked the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) for approval of its updated integrated resource plan, including its proposal to build two additional nuclear generating units at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050216/CLW066LOGO ) In an application filed with the PSC, the company said the nuclear units are expected to save customers between $2 billion and $6.5 billion over their...
