Georgia Power announced on Apr. 6 that it has continued to strengthen the state’s power grid through its Grid Investment Program, investing $1.3 billion in improvements over the last three years as approved by the Georgia Public Service Commission.
The company’s ongoing upgrades are intended to support reliable and affordable energy for Georgia’s economic growth, while also helping customers during severe weather events by reducing service interruptions and improving restoration times.
In 2025, Georgia Power executed 104 distribution system projects—surpassing its original target of 88—and advanced 25 major transmission projects, including five transmission line upgrades and twenty substation enhancements. The company said these efforts have improved reliability for more than 504,000 customers. Following Winter Storm Fern in January, crews restored power to 175,000 customers within the first day. After Hurricane Helene in September 2024—the most damaging storm in company history—smart-grid technology enabled remote restoration of service to over one million customers within five days despite widespread damage.
“Our priority is delivering clean, safer, and reliable energy for every customer we serve. The progress made last year shows how strategic grid investments directly improve reliability and restoration speed, especially during severe weather,” said Josh Stallings, vice president of distribution strategy and support at Georgia Power. “Looking ahead, we will continue to enhance the grid so our customers can count on the energy they need, and to support this exciting and unprecedented growth in Georgia.”
Recent local projects include pole strengthening improvements in Southwest Atlanta (Ben Hill), installation of outage isolation equipment in Stone Mountain to enable faster restorations after outages occur, and replacing overhead lines with underground cables on Wilmington Island/Savannah to reduce exposure-related outages.
Since launching the program in 2020, Georgia Power has upgraded or enhanced hundreds of circuits and substations; installed thousands of advanced devices; replaced or upgraded tens of thousands of poles; and added hundreds of miles of underground cable across its system. According to the company’s metrics—System Average Interruption Frequency Index (SAIFI) and System Average Interruption Duration Index (SAIDI)—areas with completed Grid Investment projects have seen up to a fifty percent improvement: affected customers now experience about half as many outages lasting about half as long.
More information about active projects can be found at www.GeorgiaPower.com/Grid.
