Our Vision

To balance sustainability and responsibility, offer affordable renewable energy options, and provide choices on how you power your future.

Our Mission

To offer green energy options while maintaining a reliable energy supply for our members who depend on it.

From our facilities to you

We are committed to maintaining a diverse and reliable energy mix while offering you the choice of using renewable energy to power your homes and businesses. To do this, we generate hydro, solar and biomass at our facilities and we rely on additional renewable energy from facilities across the Southeast.

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SOLAR

The Wing Solar utility-scale facility provides members access to affordable solar energy. The 80 MW generated at the facility is enough to power approximately 13,000 homes. Two additional utility scale facilities are planned and will expand PowerSouth’s renewable energy portfolio.

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SOLAR
HYDRO

PowerSouth owns and operates the Gantt and Point A Hydro Units, and receives additional hydro generation through its partnership with SEPA. Combined, PowerSouth’s members have access to over 200 MW of hydroelectric generation.

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HYDRO
BIOMASS

PowerSouth, through its partnership with Waste Management, generates 4.8 MW of electricity by extracting methane gas from the Springhill Regional Landfill.

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BIOMASS

Springhill

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Electricity generated at the Springhill Regional Landfill near Campbellton, Fla., is added to our generation mix to further diversify our resources so that we continue to offer the most reliable, economical and environmentally sound power possible. Through a partnership between Waste Management and PowerSouth, methane gas from Springhill Regional Landfill is extracted and burned to generate 4.8 megawatts of green energy, which is then placed on the transmission grid and made available for all members in PowerSouth’s system.

Wing Solar

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An 80-megawatt large scale solar facility in Covington County, Alabama, Wing Solar is a collaboration between PowerSouth and Origis Energy to supply PowerSouth and its members with green, affordable solar energy. The solar facility, constructed on 986 acres and consisting of over 238,000 solar panels, began transmitting power to the grid in March 2023. The 80 megawatts generated at the facility is enough to power approximately 13,000 homes annually.

Gantt & Point A

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The Gantt and Point A Hydroelectric Dams are a landmark in Covington County, and they have provided reliable power for PowerSouth since 1944. Together, the Point A and Gantt facilities have an 8 megawatt capacity – enough to power approximately 8,000 homes.

SEPA

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PowerSouth takes a portion of the nearly 3,400 megawatts of capacity generated by the Southeast Power Administration’s (SEPA) hydroelectric facilities. SEPA serves more than 12 million consumers across 11 states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia. These are several of the SEPA hydroelectric facilities from which PowerSouth receives energy.

Your Green Power Choice providers

Concern for community is one of our seven cooperative principles of service, and we understand that many of our community members are interested in green energy. As your Green Power Choice providers, we are proud to offer you simple and affordable options so you can choose how you power your home or business.