- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Oglethorpe Power Corporation
- Creator:
- Campbell, John
- Date of Original:
- 2006-08-10
- Subject:
- Electric utilities--Georgia
Corporations--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, DeKalb County, Tucker, 33.85455, -84.21714
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Oglethorpe Power Corporation. Oglethorpe Power Corporation is the largest electric power cooperative in the United States, with $1.2 billion in revenues, $4.8 billion in assets, and 3.7 million customers, as of 2005. It supplies wholesale electric power to thirty-eight of Georgia's forty-two electric membership corporations (EMCs), with a service area that covers 37,000 square miles, or 65 percent of the state, in 150 out of 159 counties. The cooperative has 160 employees, and its headquarters are in Tucker, in DeKalb County.
GSE identifier: SS8E2 - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/oglethorpe-power-corporation/
- Language:
- eng
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- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
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