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<SEC-DOCUMENT>0000041091-01-500007.txt : 20010226
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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000041091-01-500007
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	35-CERT
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
FILED AS OF DATE:		20010223

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			GEORGIA POWER CO
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000041091
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	ELECTRIC SERVICES [4911]
		IRS NUMBER:				580257110
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			GA
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		35-CERT
		SEC ACT:		
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	070-08795
		FILM NUMBER:		1553079

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		241 RALPH MCGILL BOULEVARD
		CITY:			ATLANTA
		STATE:			GA
		ZIP:			30308
		BUSINESS PHONE:		4045066526
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<TEXT>

                Seventeenth Bank Loan Certificate of Notification
                             (Fourth Quarter - 2000)

                                    Filed by

                              GEORGIA POWER COMPANY


Pursuant to order of the Securities and Exchange Commission dated March 13, 1996
in the matter of File No. 70-8795.

                              - - - - - - - - - - -

Georgia Power Company (GEORGIA) hereby certifies to said Commission, pursuant to
Rule 24, that, in accordance with the terms and conditions of and for the
purposes represented by the statement on Form U-1 in the above matter at the end
of the fourth quarter of 2000, GEORGIA had:

Short-term and/or term loan notes outstanding - $20,000,000;

Commercial paper to dealers outstanding - $683,838,649.59; and

Non-negotiable promissory notes to public entities in exchange for the proceeds
of their revenue anticipation notes - $0

                                    SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935,
the undersigned company has duly caused this certificate to be signed on its
behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

Dated:       February 23, 2001                   GEORGIA POWER COMPANY



                                                 By: Wayne Boston
                                                     Wayne Boston
                                                  Assistant Secretary
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