LPO is considering whether to issue a loan guarantee of a funding facility to Georgia Power Company (GPC) pursuant to its authority under the EDF Program.
Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance
September 24, 2025
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LPO is considering whether to issue a loan guarantee of a funding facility to Georgia Power Company (GPC) pursuant to its authority under the EDF Program. In its application, GPC has identified McGrau Ford Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) project (Project) for inclusion in the funding facility that is the subject of DOE's loan guarantee. GPC may request inclusion of multiple individual projects with independent utility in the funding facility that is the subject of the DOE loan guarantee, accordingly, DOE will complete an environmental review pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for these projects prior to their inclusion in the funding facility that is the subject of the DOE's loan guarantee.
The purpose of the project is to improve GPC's ability to reliably integrate additional generation resources and help GPC achieve its goal of implementing more battery energy storage systems by leveraging existing transmission interconnections.