Thomson-Vogtle Transmission Line

Plans were recently announced that two new nuclear operating units would be constructed at Plant Vogtle nuclear operating plant, near Augusta, Georgia. Building the two new nuclear units will help meet the needs of Georgia Power customers in 2016 and beyond. The two new units that are scheduled to come on-line by 2017.

The Thomson-Vogtle 500 kV transmission line must be built to add the necessary transmission infrastructure to support the two new nuclear units. The line route is 55 miles long and begins at Plant Vogtle in Waynesboro, Ga. (Burke County) and ends at the Thomson Primary substation, southeast of Thomson, Ga. (McDuffie County). The route runs through Burke, Jefferson, Warren and McDuffie counties and existing transmission line corridors were utilized over approximately 13 miles of the line route.

The transmission line must be in service by early 2016 to support the new Vogtle Units 3 and 4 and is needed to continue to provide all of our customers with reliable service.