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I've mentioned in previous articles that West Florida Electric Cooperative's power supplier is PowerSouth Energy Cooperative. In this article I share more details about them.

PowerSouth Energy Cooperative, headquartered in Andalusia, Alabama, is a generation and transmission (G&T) electric cooperative that provides wholesale power to four municipal systems and 16 electric cooperatives serving  members in 39 counties in Alabama and 10 counties in Northwest Florida. (See map at right).

PowerSouth Energy provides power to over 480,000 members and owns 300 plus substations throughout those 49 counties in Alabama and Florida. West Florida Electric Cooperative (WFEC) serves approximately 21,300 of those members from 13 substations located in our four-county service area (Calhoun, Holmes, Jackson and Washington Counties). The power is generated using a mixture of natural gas (fossil fuel), hydro, solar (renewable energy) and
nuclear power. Coal (fossil fuel) was also used for many years, but its use was discontinued several years ago.

PowerSouth is a cooperative just like West Florida Electric. We are member-owners of WFEC and WFEC is a member-owner of PowerSouth. Just as I serve as a representative of our membership on the West Florida Board of Trustees, West Florida also has representatives who serve on the PowerSouth Energy Board of Trustees. Those representatives are Interim CEO, Wayne Williams, and District 7 Trustee, Randy Bush. They obtain up-to-date information from PowerSouth each month and provide that information back to WFEC's board and leadership team.

I hope everyone had a wonderful and blessed holiday season.