Data
Generating capacity of the largest US nuclear power plant (Vogtle)
The net summer generating capacity of the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in Georgia, the largest nuclear power plant in the United States, with four reactors, in gigawatts, as stated by the US Energy Information Administration. A capacity is the most a plant can deliver, not what it delivers on average.
Latest value
4.53GW
Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Georgia, United States, March 2026. Version FAQ 207, as of March 2026.
As published
“The Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in Georgia is the largest U.S. nuclear power plant. It has: Four reactors Total nameplate electricity generating capacity of about 4,658 MW Total net summer electricity generating capacity of 4,530 MW”
EIA FAQ: How many nuclear power plants are in the United States?, FAQ 207, answer. Checked word for word against the stored copy of the document every time the data is rebuilt.
Where it comes from
- Producer
- U.S. Energy Information Administration · EIA FAQ: How many nuclear power plants are in the United States?
- Version
- FAQ 207, as of March 2026
- Fetched
- 2026-10-25 (automatically), 54,198 bytes
- Fingerprint
- sha256 39f0f3fa8f3021966ad705f5adf76343756817d2572441792b46c0a505bb7ba7
- Copies
- No Wayback copy recorded yet.Our copy of the exact file
- Cite the producer
- Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Mar 2026).
What was done to it
Read the visible text of EIA's FAQ 207 (sha256 39f0f3fa8f30…) and found, in full, the passage dating the answer ('As of March 2026') and the passage naming the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in Georgia as the largest US nuclear power plant, with a total net summer electricity generating capacity of 4,530 MW.
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/energy/eia_faq_nuclear.py · code sha256 f5d72e1b5a6eeff1… · inputs 39f0f3fa8f30…
Unit conversion: 4,530 megawatts divided by 1,000 gives gigawatts, exactly. This is a capacity, the most the plant can deliver in summer conditions after its own use, not its average output.
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/energy/eia_faq_nuclear.py · code sha256 f5d72e1b5a6eeff1… · inputs 39f0f3fa8f30…
What it covers
- Geography
- Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Georgia, United States
- Basis
- Net summer capacity: the most the plant's four reactors can supply to the grid in summer conditions, after the plant's own use. The period is the month EIA's answer is dated.
- Unit
- gigawatts of net summer generating capacity (GW)