Electricity played a vital role in transforming our world.In today’s changing global energy landscape, utilities face many challenges in generating and distributing power.
Wiregrass Electric Cooperative and its wholesale energy supplier, PowerSouth Energy Cooperative, are among the utilities embracing innovation and collaboration to offer sustainable, reliable and affordable energy to their communities.
“We’re focusing on opportunities to collaborate, innovate and modernize our infrastructure and the ways in which we provide electricity,” says Gary Smith, PowerSouth CEO. “That’s not an easy task, but we’re doing everything we can to manage more demand for electricity and increased costs of natural gas and supplies.”
To ensure a healthy energy supply, PowerSouth’s long-term plan includes implementing cutting-edge technology, operating a new natural gas generating plant and a utility-scale solar project, and adding nuclear energy to its portfolio. It’s also taking advantage of power pooling, a practice in which utilities share resources to better manage the variability of electricity demand and supply.