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Oglethorpe Power Corporation, located in Tucker, Ga., is a nonprofit power supply cooperative that serves 39 of Georgia's 42 Electric Membership Corporations. In turn, the EMCs provide retail electric service to millions of residents throughout the state. OPC's primary mission is to provide the power necessary to meet the needs of the 39 co-op member systems. The corporation makes use of a portfolio of power resources, including fossil, nuclear, coal and hydro facilities, as well as long-term and short-term contracts. In 1997, with the potential of electric deregulation in Georgia, OPC divided into three specialized companies, OPC, Georgia System Operations Corporation and Georgia Transmission Corporation. The organization operates primarily as a power generating company. GSOC and GTC are subsidiaries of OPC.

Georgia Transmission Corporation is a nonprofit cooperative that provides electric transmission and associated services to customers throughout Georgia. Its customers include 39 electric membership cooperatives, Oglethorpe Power Corporation and other power suppliers, power marketers and independent power producers. Georgia Transmission Corporation plans, builds and maintains a transmission system of more than $1 billion worth of power lines, substations, protection and control devices, communications equipment and rights of way. In addition to its 2,600 miles of power lines and 570 substations, the company jointly owns and plans the state's 16,000 total miles of transmission lines through the Integrated Transmission System Agreement with Georgia's three other transmission providers. The company transmits electricity from power suppliers to power distributors, that in turn, distribute power to residential, commercial and industrial customers. Georgia Transmission Corporation was founded in 1974 and is located in Tucker, Ga.