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McDonough Steam Generating Plant is an operating power station of at least 2766-megawatts (MW) in Smyrna, Cobb, Georgia, United States with multiple units, some of which are not currently operating. It is also known as Atkinson power station, Jack McDonough Steam Generating Plant.

Georgia Power owns two nuclear facilities, Hatch and Vogtle, which provide about 20 percent of the electricity used in Georgia. Our plants are managed by Southern Nuclear, a sister company owned by Southern Company, which specializes in nuclear operations.

Located north of Atlanta, the Plant McDonough-Atkinson facility in Smyrna, Georgia, generates enough energy to power more than 1.7 million homes. To bring cleaner, more efficient energy to the area, the plant converted to natural gas in 2012, operating six M501G series gas turbines, along with three steam turbines in a 2-on-1 combined-cycle ...

ATLANTA, (June 10, 2022) - Mitsubishi Power and Georgia Power, alongside the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), this month successfully validated fuel blending of hydrogen and natural gas at both partial and full load on an M501G natural gas turbine at Georgia Power’s Plant McDonough-Atkinson in Smyrna, Georgia. The demonstration ...

Plant Vogtle units 3 and 4 will be the first new nuclear units built in the United States in the last three decades and Georgia Power remains focused on safety and quality as top priorities. Learn More

Oct 29, 2012 · With the addition of the third natural gas unit, the new units at Plant McDonough-Atkinson are capable of producing in excess of 2,500 MWs, enough energy to power approximately 625,000 homes.

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Jun 13, 2022 · The Plant McDonough-Atkinson complex, which is less than 10 miles from downtown Atlanta, has been serving electric consumers for over 80 years and was fully converted to natural gas in 2012, with the capacity to power up to 1.7 million households.

Jun 10, 2022 · Plant McDonough ATLANTA – Georgia Power completed a demonstration project this week blending hydrogen with natural gas at the utility’s Plant McDonough-Atkinson in Smyrna. The project was the first to test a blend of 20% hydrogen in a …