Southern Power Projects
Southern Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company, is a leading U.S. wholesale energy provider meeting the electricity needs of municipalities, electric cooperatives, investor-owned utilities and other energy customers. Southern Power and its subsidiaries own 48 facilities operating or under construction in 11 states with more than 11,300 MW of generating capacity in Alabama, California, Georgia, Kansas, Maine, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Texas.
Wind
Southern Power currently owns more than 1,920 megawatts of wind generating capacity at 11 facilities operating or under construction in Kansas, Maine, Oklahoma and Texas. In October 2018, the company announced its first wind facility in Kansas, the 200-MW Reading Wind Facility.
| Wind Projects | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fuel | Plant Name | Location | Current Capacity | Details |
|
Bethel Wind Farm | Castro County, Texas | 276 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Cactus Flats Wind Facility | Concho County, Texas | 148 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Grant Plains Wind Facility | Grant County, Oklahoma | 147 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Grant Wind Facility | Grant County, Oklahoma | 151 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Kay Wind Facility | Kay County, Oklahoma | 299 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Passadumkeag Windpark | Penobscot County, Maine | 40 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Reading Wind Facility | Osage and Lyon Counties, Kansas | 200 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Salt Fork Wind Facility | Donley and Gray Counties, Texas | 174 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Tyler Bluff Wind Facility | Cooke County, Texas | 126 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Wake Wind Energy Center | Crosby and Floyd Counties, Texas | 257 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Wildhorse Mountain Wind Facility | Pushmataha County, OK | 100 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
Biomass
Southern Power began commercial operation of the Nacogdoches Generating Facility in Sacul, Texas, in 2012. The 115-megawatt plant - one of the largest wood-fired biomass plants in the U.S. - serves the city of Austin.
| Biomass Projects | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fuel | Plant Name | Location | Current Capacity | Details |
|
Nacogdoches Generating Facility | Sacul, Texas | 115 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
Natural Gas
Southern Power owns more than 8,100 megawatts across eight gas plants in Alabama, Georgia, Minnesota and North Carolina.
| Natural Gas Projects | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fuel | Plant Name | Location | Current Capacity | Details |
|
Plant Addison | Thomaston, Georgia | 668 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Plant Cleveland | Cleveland County, North Carolina | 720 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Plant Dahlberg | Jackson County, Georgia | 756 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Plant Franklin | Smiths, Alabama | 1,857 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Plant Harris | Autaugaville, Alabama | 1,318 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Mankato Energy Center | Mankato, Minnesota | 720 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Plant Rowan | Salisbury, North Carolina | 985 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Plant Wansley | Heard County, Georgia | 1,073 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
Solar
Southern Power currently owns more than 1,230 megawatts of solar generating capacity at 28 facilities operating in California, Georgia, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina and Texas. Twenty-six of these facilities are co-owned by third parties, with Southern Power having the majority ownership.
| Solar Projects | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fuel | Plant Name | Location | Current Capacity | Details |
|
Adobe Solar Facility | Kern County, California | 20 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Apex Solar Facility | North Las Vegas, Nevada | 20 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Boulder Solar I Facility | Clark County, Nevada | 100 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Butler Solar Facility | Taylor County, Georgia | 103 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Butler Solar Farm | Taylor County, Georgia | 20 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Campo Verde Solar Facility | Imperial County, California | 147 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Calipatria Solar Facility | Imperial County, California | 20 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Cimarron Solar Facility | Colfax County, New Mexico | 30 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Decatur County Solar Facility | Decatur County, Georgia | 19 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Decatur Parkway Solar Facility | Decatur County, Georgia | 84 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Desert Stateline Solar Facility | San Bernardino County, California | 300 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
East Pecos Solar Facility | Pecos County, Texas | 120 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Garland Solar Facility | Kern County, California | 200 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Gaskell West 1 | Kern County, California | 20 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Granville Solar Facility | Granville County, North Carolina | 2.5 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Henrietta Solar Project | Kings County, California | 102 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Lamesa Solar Facility | Dawson County, Texas | 102 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Lost Hills-Blackwell Solar Facility | Kern County, California | 35 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Macho Springs Solar Facility | Luna County, New Mexico | 55 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Morelos del Sol Solar Facility | Kern County, California | 15 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
North Star Solar Facility | Fresno County, California | 61 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Pawpaw Solar Facility | Taylor County, Georgia | 30 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Roserock Solar Facility | Pecos County, Texas | 157 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Rutherford | Rutherford County, North Carolina | 74.8 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Sandhills Solar Facility | Taylor County, Georgia | 146 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Solar Gen 2 Solar Facility | Imperial County, California | 163 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Spectrum Solar Facility | Clark County, Nevada | 30 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
|
|
Tranquillity Solar Facility | Fresno, California | 204 megawatts | Fact Sheet |
