Georgia Power will increase its solar power in the coming years, close a coal-fired power plant and add more wood burning to its energy mix. Those are all pieces of its long-range energy plan, approved Tuesday morning by the Georgia Public Service Commission.
Most of the new renewable energy would come from utility-scale solar farms, though some could be from rooftop solar panels. It’s a bump up from what Georgia Power had initially proposed to add, from 1,000 megawatts, to 2,210 megawatts, enough to serve more than 225,000 homes, according to the Southern Environmental Law Center.
Public Service Commission chairman Bubba McDonald has directed Georgia Power to add more solar power in past integrated resource plans, and continued to do so with this one.
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