Southeast Growth
Corporate Responsibility
Our report on the corporate, environmental, workplace, and community responsibilities of Southern Company and its subsidiaries.
- The Southeast is the fastest growing region in the country.
- Forecasters predict a population increase in the Southeast of 31 percent by 2030.
- The population of Atlanta alone is projected to increase by 60 percent by 2030.
- In 2007, Southern Company added 55,000 new customers, and that number is expected to grow as more and more people move to the Southeast.
- In the Southeast, electricity demand is expected to increase more than 32 percent during the next 15 years, far outpacing the demand growth in other regions of the country.
- Southern Company projects that growth in its service territory will result in a need for more than 15,000 additional megawatts of generating capacity by 2025.*
- Southern Company projects the need for 90,000 mw of new generation by 2028 in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and the Carolinas.**
* Projection of 15,000 mw by 2025 pertains specifically to Southern Company's service territory.
** 90,000 mw by 2028 projection is for the entire states of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and the Carolinas.
** 90,000 mw by 2028 projection is for the entire states of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and the Carolinas.