\nThat’s right: we could have had 3,000 times as much solar production by now.\nAll SO would have to do\n\n\nwould be to look at what Cobb EMC and Austin Energy have done,\nor even what SO itself is doing in Nevada.\nOr at what Germany, world leader in solar power, a thousand miles north of us,\nis doing.<\/p>\n Remember: Georgia Power just deployed 1 MW of solar power, when we could have had 3,000 MW by now. Does that seem right to you?<\/p>\n Especially when nuclear plants guzzle water and solar does not?<\/a><\/p>\n -jsq<\/p>\n PS: The Upson story is owed to Alex Thomas.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"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 […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[606,1127,17,18,558,19,104,23,24],"tags":[2148,2203,8794,8818,8707,8701,8708,8781,8709,548,8702,12,7,27,8737,107,8713,8714,108,2105,6,2204,2202],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austinenergy","category-cobb-emc","category-ga-psc","category-georgia-power","category-germany","category-history","category-nuclear","category-renewable-energy","category-solar","tag-9-july-2012","tag-apex","tag-austinenergy","tag-cobb-emc","tag-ga-psc","tag-georgia","tag-georgia-power","tag-germany","tag-history","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-megawatts","tag-nuclear","tag-plant-vogtle","tag-renewable-energy","tag-solar","tag-southern-company","tag-upson","tag-valdosta","tag-webberville","tag-www-l-a-k-e-org"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-bf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Solar](\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b01761649c7a2970c-pi.jpg\")
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<\/a> 20 MW will be produced by Cobb EMC’s Davisboro<\/a> solar plant, funded by private capital. <\/li>\n![](\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b016766fbbfb1970b-pi.jpg\")
<\/a>330 MW of solar power is how much Southern Company could have built with just the $913 million cost overrun<\/a> so far at the new nukes at Plant Vogtle. <\/li>\n![](\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b01761649c7af970c-pi.gif\")
<\/a> 2,400 MW is the Georgia equivalent per population<\/a> of the 20 gigawatts (20,000 MW) Germany, the world leader in solar power, has deployed. <\/li>\n![](\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b016766d856cd970b-pi.jpg\")
<\/a>\n3,200 MW is how much new solar capacity will be installed this year in the U.S.<\/a> Mostly not in Georgia, because Georgia Power and Southern Company are wasting the money on Plant Vogtle<\/a> while actively preventing the rest of us from deploying as much solar as we could.<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n![](\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b01761649c7b0970c-pi.jpg\")
<\/a> Maybe it’s time to do something about it. Maybe even more than paying your nuclear rate hike in a separate check.<\/a> As Cobb EMC CEO Chip Nelson said:<\/a><\/p>\nWe’re just ripe for solar power.<\/blockquote>\n