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Georgia Power Co. and Georgia EMCs report power outages in North Georgia

By Brian O'Shea
Jan 16, 2022

Is your power out? Georgia Electric Cooperative (EMC) is reporting more than 44,000 customers without power statewide as of 11:45 a.m. Thousands more customers of Georgia Power Co. in metro Atlanta and North Georgia are without electric power.

Checking for updates from Georgia EMC and from Georgia Power.

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Brian O'Shea is a senior digital producer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He works with the newsroom to identify topics of interest to Atlanta readers and also works with voter guides and election results. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia and The Ohio State University Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism.

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