Plant Farley Celebrates 40 Years Of Safe, Reliable, Affordable Nuclear Energy

By Linda Brannon

Community leaders, employees and retirees today celebrated 40 years of the Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Power Plant providing safe, reliable, affordable energy to Alabama Power customers.

“For 40 years, Plant Farley has played a key role in ensuring Alabama Power customers are provided with the electricity they need to light their homes and power their businesses,” said Alabama Power Chairman, President and CEO Mark Crosswhite. “We thank everyone on the Farley team who helped us achieve this milestone, and look forward to many more years of serving Alabama.”

“Since commercial operation began in December 1977, Plant Farley has generated enough clean nuclear energy to provide every single residential customer in the state with electricity for some 25 years. That’s an extraordinary accomplishment,” said Steve Kuczynski, president and CEO of Southern Nuclear, which manages and operates Plant Farley for Alabama Power.Plant Farley is on 1,850 acres along the Chattahoochee River near Dothan, in southeast Alabama. Its two units, which began operation in 1977 and 1981, respectively, can generate 1,800 megawatts of emission-free electricity – enough energy to supply about 450,000 Alabama homes.

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