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Serving Georgia
Plan, build and maintain
To get power from where it is produced to where it is used, Georgia Transmission Corporation plans, builds and maintains a transmission system of more than $1.2 billion worth of power lines, substations, protection and control devices, communications equipment and rights of way. In addition to its 2,700 miles of power lines and 595 substations, the company jointly plans and operates most of the state's 17,500 total miles of transmission lines through the Integrated Transmission System agreement with Georgia's three other transmission providers.
Reliable
While the system is complex, the mission is rather simple — deliver reliable power at a reasonable cost. Georgia Transmission provides its owners, 39 of the state's 42 electric membership cooperatives, with the power they need to satisfy local electric distribution needs. Power is not easily stored. It is consumed in almost real time. For the EMCs to meet their customers' ever-changing needs, they depend on the high-capacity, long-distance transmission systems to respond. Georgia Transmission's planners, engineers, designers, project managers, inspectors and technicians work day in and day out to ensure that each part of the transmission system is ready. And when there is an outage, the EMCs expect Georgia Transmission to help get service restored as quickly as possible. Reliability means planning, building and maintaining a system that makes the grade every moment of every day in every region of the state. On that note, Georgia Transmission had its best year for service reliability in 2003. It set records in each industry performance measurement: shortest outage duration, least number of outages and least number of momentary outages.
Rooflines need power lines
Georgia Transmission is charged with helping meet the electric transmission demands of one of America's fastest -growing states. New facilities are constructed to meet EMCs' requirements, called “source” or “load-serving” projects, and to meet regional or statewide transmission requirements, called bulk projects. To keep pace with the state's rapidly growing population and energy demand, Georgia Transmission invests about $100 million annually in new transmission facilities. The current construction schedule calls for more than 300 miles of power lines and 60 substations in a four-year span.
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In the end, Georgia Transmission's job is to stay in step with the EMCs to make sure transmission service can handle today's changing power needs, tomorrow's peak demands and rapid growth in the years to come.
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