PowerSouth Energy Cooperative

PowerSouth Energy Cooperative
FormerlyAlabama Electric Cooperative
Headquarters,
United States
Websitepowersouth.com

PowerSouth Energy Cooperative is an electrical Generation and Transmission (G&T) cooperative based in Andalusia, Alabama, providing wholesale power to 16 electric distribution cooperatives and four municipal systems in Alabama and northwest Florida. PowerSouth was founded as Alabama Electric Cooperative (AEC) in 1941 and changed its name to PowerSouth in 2008.[1][2] The cooperative operates one of very rare salt cavern-based compressed-air energy storage installations.[3]

  1. ^ "Alabama Rural Electric Association of Cooperatives". Retrieved March 29, 2024.
  2. ^ Sanchez, T. (2010). The Hidden Energy Crisis: How Policies are Failing the World's Poor. Practical Action Pub. p. 20. ISBN 978-1-85339-676-2.
  3. ^ Nagel, T.; Böttcher, N.; Görke, U.J.; Kolditz, O. (2017). Computational Geotechnics: Storage of Energy Carriers. SpringerBriefs in Energy. Springer International Publishing. p. 44. ISBN 978-3-319-56962-8. Retrieved 2024-04-05.