The “Solar in the Southeast” eighth edition report highlights solar data and trends throughout the region, including Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
As a regional organization, SACE tracks and compiles information from electric utility integrated resource plans (IRPs) that utilities file with state-level regulators. These resource plans, along with data on currently operating utility-scale and rooftop solar are used to produce near-term forecasts for total installed capacity of solar power (in megawatts, MW) for the entire region out to 2030. In this report, SACE once again offers detailed analysis and information on how solar is doing at the regional, state, and utility levels.
Highlights in this year’s “Solar in the Southeast” eighth edition report include:
- Solar growth continued in the Southeast, reaching nearly 28 gigawatts (GW) in 2024, adding 5 GW of new solar in that year alone
- The Southeast is projected to double the amount of solar in the region in 2030, as some utilities like Florida Power & Light and Georgia Power have made larger solar capacity deployments in shorter time frames than ever
- Florida holds the lead as the largest contributor to installed solar capacity, with nearly 13.9 GW installed in 2024
- With utilities across the region forecasting significant demand from data centers, each utility resource plan is an opportunity to add more solar to the grid, especially if it is paired with battery storage
SACE hosted a webinar on the report findings on Wednesday, October 29 at 1 PM ET – you can watch it here.
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