Power plant · Georgia, United States

Thomas A Smith Energy Facility

Thomas A Smith Energy Facility is a power plant in Georgia, United States, with 1,192 MW of capacity, owned by Oglethorpe Power Corporation.

Facts

Every value links to its source, and to the source's own record where it has one. Licences and last-checked dates are per row.

Fact	Value	Source
Location	Georgia	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Operating	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Start year	2002	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Owner	Oglethorpe Power Corporation	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Oglethorpe Power Corporation	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	1,192 MW	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	34.7094, -84.9175	EIA-860 / 860M / 923 · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026

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How it compares

Thomas A Smith Energy Facility is the 8th-largest of 26 power plants in Georgia and the 228th-largest of 800 in the United States by capacity; its 1,192 MW is 0.14% of the 839,036 MW we hold for the United States. Ranks and totals cover the power plants in our data that report their capacity, not every one in existence. Power plants planned, permitted or under construction are ranked apart.

Within	Rank	Total	Share
Georgia	8th of 26	31,710 MW	3.8%
United States	228th of 800	839,036 MW	0.14%
All power plants in our data	254th of 12,032	1,190,447 MW	0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 3 mines and 2 data centers (1 operating, 28 MW), measured from the coordinates in the facts above.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
CoreWeave Dalton 1 & 2	Data center	28 MW	Operating	3.1 km
Chatsworth Plant	Mine	—	Operating	17 km
Pine Hall Brick Fairmount Mine	Mine	—	Operating	32 km
Whitestone Mine #4	Mine	—	Operating	44 km
DC Blox Chattanooga	Data center	—	—	50 km

Owner, operator and place

Other power plants in Georgia

Vogtle4,658 MW
Bowen3,499 MW
Jack McDonough2,848 MW
Scherer2,673 MW
Edwin I Hatch1,848 MW
McIntosh Combined Cycle Facility1,377 MW
Wansley Combined Cycle1,239 MW
Tenaska Georgia Generation Facility1,099 MW

All 38 power plants in Georgia, United States

Data on this page

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Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
MSHA Mines Data Set. MSHA Mines Data Set, Public domain.
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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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