It's a funny story because everyone really believed 72 MW would be all the state needed until the year 2000. Today's generators output 818 MW typically.
And Georgia has 34,601 MW of capacity! They were off by a factor of 480. See:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/st_profiles/georgia.pdf
The size of the energy industry is astounding.
- Jed
