US utility Southern Company has seen its contracted large-load pipeline surge by 6GW to 17GW since its last earnings report.
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The Birmingham, Alabama-headquartered utility, which supplies electricity and gas to six states in the South of the US through several subsidiaries, reported the news in its Q2 earnings report.
“The extraordinary economic development momentum and demand for power across our southeast region that we’ve seen for the past several years continues, particularly from data centers and other large load customers,” said Chris Womack, chairman, president, and CEO of Southern Company.
The new contracted load includes Georgia Power’s 3.2GW, 25-year contract with OpenAI for a data center site near Savannah, Georgia.
