History: 1975-2025

The Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia was created on March 18, 1975 by an Act of the Georgia General Assembly and tasked with the mission of generating and transmitting reliable, affordable wholesale electricity to municipalities that operated their own electric distribution system – known as the Participants.

These municipalities wanted to ensure the ongoing delivery of affordable wholesale electric power at a time when load growth in Georgia was outpacing available generation, and their supply of increasingly costly energy came from a single energy provider that prioritized retail customers in times of peak demand.

The opportunity arose in 1974 for public power organizations in Georgia to acquire electricity directly from Plants Hatch and Vogtle, new nuclear projects that were in development. This required the creation of a legal Authority to function as an electric utility that could buy shares of ownership in the plants and supply the power to the members.

These communities joined together to develop what would become the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia.

Forty-seven of the 52 qualifying municipalities initially signed long-term power sales agreements with the Authority, with the city of Oxford joining in 1986 and Acworth joining in 2002. This partnership gave the 49 Participants assurance of where their power was sourced, and freed them of the burden of having to constantly negotiate on their own for electric service.

Today, MEAG Power has 22.7% ownership in Plant Vogtle Units 1-4, 17.7% ownership in Plant Hatch Units 1 and 2, 30.2% ownership in Plant Sherer Units 1 and 2, and wholly owns a combined cycle gas generating facility at Plant Wansley. MEAG Power also schedules and delivers hydropower generated from dams operated by the Southeastern Power Administration (SEPA) to the Participant communities that have direct contracts with SEPA.