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Oglethorpe Power Corporation — power plant portfolio

Oglethorpe Power Corporation operates 10 power plants across 2 countries, with a combined installed capacity of 5,978 MW. Its plants with asset-level emissions data total 6,197,590 t CO₂/yr.

10power plants
5,978MW total capacity
2countries
6,197,590t CO₂/yr (source-labelled)

Fleet by fuel

Gas: 9 plants9GasHydro: 1 plants1Hydro

Fleet interpretation

Oglethorpe Power Corporation is represented here as an asset portfolio, not just a company label. The visible fleet spans 2 countries; the largest concentration is United States of America (10), United States (0).

The fuel mix by asset count is gas (9), hydro (1). The largest listed asset is Thomas A Smith Energy Facility in United States of America (1,192 MW), and the mean listed unit size is about 598 MW across units with capacity data.

CO₂ coverage is source-labelled: 6 plants have a reported or modelled CO₂ value in the dataset, including 5 measured records. Missing values remain blank rather than inferred as company totals.

Method: plant-level records are grouped by owner/operator label, then aggregated by country, fuel, capacity and CO₂ provenance.

All 10 plants

PlantFuelCountryMWt CO₂/yr
Thomas A Smith Energy FacilityGasUnited States of America1,1923,432,994
Rocky Mountain Hydroelectric PlantHydroUnited States of America848
Talbot County EnergyGasUnited States of America726334,056
Bobby C Smith Jr Energy FacilityGasUnited States of America597660,810
Sewell Creek EnergyGasUnited States of America570
Chattahoochee Energy FacilityGasUnited States of America5401,310,709
Hawk Road FacilityGasUnited States of America495347,648
Doyle Energy FacilityGasUnited States of America410
Hartwell Energy FacilityGasUnited States of America360
Smarr Energy CenterGasUnited States of America242111,373

Ownership & capacity: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). CO₂ is measured for EPA/EU ETS records and modelled for Climate TRACE records.

Frequently asked questions

How many power plants does Oglethorpe Power Corporation operate?

Oglethorpe Power Corporation operates 10 power plants across 2 countries, with about 5,978 MW of total capacity.

What is Oglethorpe Power Corporation's largest power plant?

Thomas A Smith Energy Facility in United States of America is its largest at about 1,192 MW.

What types of power plants does Oglethorpe Power Corporation run?

Its fleet is mostly gas (9), hydro (1).

How much CO₂ do Oglethorpe Power Corporation's plants emit?

Its reporting plants emit about 6,197,590 tonnes of CO₂ per year in this dataset.

By Dmytro Aheiev, Inzonex Research · ORCID 0009-0001-5512-0291 · data sources and methodology