The “Solar in the Southeast” Ninth Edition report highlights solar data and trends throughout the region, including Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
Highlights in this year’s “Solar in the Southeast” eighth edition report include:
- Solar growth continued in the Southeast, reaching a cumulative 30 gigawatts (GW) in 2025 as the region is projected to almost double its amount of solar by 2030.
- Florida remains the state with the most installed solar capacity in the region, with over 15 GW installed in 2025.
- Solar continues to be cost-competitive as costs associated with fossil fuel infrastructure trend upward and are passed directly on to customers.
- With utilities across the region forecasting significant demand increases, each utility resource plan is an opportunity to add more solar and battery storage to the grid.
SACE hosted a webinar on the report findings on Thursday, June 25 at 1 PM ET.
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.
