Let's compare Georgia Power's 1 megawatt Upson solar plant with what Georgia Power and Southern Company could be doing if they weren't wasting so much money on nukes at Plant Vogtle.
S. Heather Duncan reported for the Macon Telegraph, First big Ga. Power solar project comes online in Upson. Yay! Georgia Power and its parent the Southern Company (SO) will have a hard time now saying solar power doesn't work in Georgia. But let's put that in perspective by megawatts.
That's right: we could have had 3,000 times as much solar production by now. All SO would have to do would be to look at what Cobb EMC and Austin Energy have done, or even what SO itself is doing in Nevada. Or at what Germany, world leader in solar power, a thousand miles north of us, is doing.
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