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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000788816-26-000040"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0000788816"
company_name: "OGLETHORPE POWER CORP"
filed_at: "2026-08-04T19:44:27+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-08-04T19:45:05.081222+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Oglethorpe Power names Heather Teilhet as next President/CEO effective Jan 4, 2027

## Summary
- Heather Teilhet, current EVP External Affairs, selected by board as next President/CEO.
- Effective January 4, 2027; she will resign current role on January 1, 2027.
- She will assist in transition; search for her replacement as EVP External Affairs to begin.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000788816-26-000040
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0000788816
- company_name: OGLETHORPE POWER CORP
- filed_at: 2026-08-04T19:44:27+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/788816/000078881626000040/0000788816-26-000040-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/788816/000078881626000040/opc-20260803.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000788816-26-000040
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000788816-26-000040.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000788816-26-000040.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Heather H. Teilhet changed role as President/CEO at OGLETHORPE POWER CORP.
  - Action: selected
  - Role: President/CEO
  source text: On August 3, 2026, Georgia Electric Membership Corporation’s board of directors selected Heather H. Teilhet, our current Executive Vice President, External Affairs, as its next President/CEO, effective January 4, 2027.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/788816/000078881626000040/0000788816-26-000040-index.htm

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