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Facts About Georgia Transmission

What We Do
Georgia Transmission Corporation provides reliable, affordable electric transmission and associated services to our owners: 39 electric membership cooperatives (EMCs). Specifically, the company:
  • Transmits electricity from power suppliers to power distributors, the EMCs. The EMCs distribute power to residential, commercial and industrial customers.
  • Performs joint planning with the state's other major utilities and the EMCs to meet the need for reliable electric service.
  • Constructs and maintains facilities necessary to provide reliable transmission services.
  • Provides open access to transmission facilities based on available capacity.
  • Builds new transmission facilities to keep pace with growth while being a good steward of Georgia's environmental, cultural and community resources.
  • Provides associated utility services.
Customers
Georgia Transmission Corporation's customers include 39 electric membership cooperatives (EMCs), Oglethorpe Power Corporation and other power suppliers, power marketers and independent power producers.

History
Today's not-for-profit cooperative known as Georgia Transmission Corporation originated in 1974 as the transmission arm of Oglethorpe Power Corporation. Before 1974, Georgia's EMCs did not produce and provide their own power; rather, they purchased power at wholesale rates from power suppliers. With the oil crisis and recession in the 1970s, 39 of Georgia's 42 EMCs formed a new generation and transmission cooperative to meet their customers' energy needs at reasonable cost. In 1997, Georgia Transmission Corporation became a separate transmission-only cooperative.

Assets
  • GTC owns more than 2,700 miles of transmission lines. The company jointly plans and operates most of the state's 17,500 miles of transmission lines through Georgia's unique Integrated Transmission System, an agreement with Georgia Power, MEAG Power and Dalton Utilities.
  • GTC owns nearly 600 substations.
  • Assets total $1.2 billion.
Location and Address
Georgia Transmission Corporation is located in Tucker, Ga., east of Atlanta, near the intersection of Interstate-285 and State Road 236.
Please contact us at:
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Georgia Transmission Corporation
2100 East Exchange Place
PO Box 2088
Tucker, GA 30084

General information: 
(770) 270-7400
Media inquiries: 
(770) 270-7050