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Parent group (Global Energy Monitor): Southern Co · years are calendar years ⓘ

79.7 Mt
Scope 1 emissions, 2025 ⓘ
0.36
t CO₂-e/MWh sent out, 2025 ⓘ
128
Plants reporting in 2025
40%
covered by planned retirement dates
Basis:
ⓘ How projections work
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Projection (equity share) Mt CO₂-e, 2026 to 2050
Planned retirements (EIA, else GEM) 1622
Closures 5 years late 1719
No closures 1936

How others report it

Not directly comparable: different boundaries and methods. Shown for context only. Our figures use the same method for every company (EPA eGRID; 2024–25 estimated plants, sent out); company reports may add contracted generation, Scope 2 or other boundaries.

SourceBoundary20212022202320242025
Emissions vs Climate TRACE (Mt CO₂-e)
Open AssetsScope 1, equity share, plants in both datasets78.179.472.873.2–
Climate TRACE (modelled)Same plants and equity shares as ours74.675.371.472.7–

Why Climate TRACE differs. Climate TRACE models each plant's generation from satellite and grid data and applies standard emission factors; our figures are what plants report to the regulator (EPA eGRID; 2024–25 estimated). To compare like with like, Climate TRACE plants are matched to ours and given the same equity shares, so the gap is Climate TRACE's modelling, not ownership. In our tests about half of the plant-level gap comes from generation estimates and half from emission factors (in Australia Climate TRACE's factors are too high for black coal and too low for brown coal). Company totals can look close while single plants are well off, because the errors offset.

Largest plant gaps, 2024: Daniel Electric Generating Plant: +1.4 Mt (+29%; generation +4%, emissions per MWh +24%); McIntosh (6124): +1.1 Mt (+3722%; generation +8086%, emissions per MWh -53%); Red Hills Generation Facility: -0.7 Mt (-31%; generation -1%, emissions per MWh -30%).

Company target

-50% by 2030 vs 2007 baseline; Net zero Scope 1 by 2050 on chart ⚠ caveat Oxford Net Zero Tracker, snapshot 20 Jan 2026

Plants and closure dates ⓘ

Methodology →
Fossil plants closing
6 plants · 35.2 Mt
Fossil, no closure date
23 plants · 51.9 Mt
Renewables with end-of-life date
0 plants
Plant Fuel Mt CO₂-e TWh Trend Closure Status
No longer reporting under this company
Closure: ≤2030 · 2031-40 · later · ↻ date moved · click a row for annual figures
+ 99 small plants (<0.01 Mt, no closure date)

Allen B Wilson Combustion Turbine Plant · Robins · Tech Square Microgrid · Sweatt · H Neely Henry Dam · Holt Dam · Jordan Dam · Logan Martin Dam · Lay Dam · Martin Dam · Mitchell Dam · Lewis Smith Dam · Thurlow Dam · Bankhead Dam · Weiss Dam · Yates Dam · Walter Bouldin Dam · Cimarron Solar Facility · Adobe Solar · Campo Verde Solar · Granville Solar PV Power Project · Apex Solar PV Power Project · Spectrum Solar PV Power Project · Solar Gen 2 · Stateline Solar · Lost Hills/Blackwell · North Star Solar · Wake Wind Energy Center · Henrietta Solar Project · Macho Springs · Calipatria Solar Farm · Passadumkeag Windpark LLC · Decatur County Solar Project · Decatur Parkway Solar Project, LLC · Kay Wind, LLC · Dalton 2 · Rutherford Farm · Fort Benning Solar Facility · Fort Gordon Solar Facility · King's Bay Solar Facility · Fort Stewart Solar Facility · Marine Corps Logistics Base Solar · Butler Solar Farm 20 · Pawpaw Solar Plant · Butler Solar Project 103 · Taylor County Solar · RE Tranquillity · RE Roserock · Morelos del Sol · Joseph M Farley · Grant Wind, LLC · RE Garland · Boulder Solar Power, LLC · Lamesa Solar · RE Garland A · Bethel Wind Farm LLC · East Pecos Solar · Tyler Bluff Wind Project, LLC · Edwin I Hatch · Tri-County Solar Facility · Grant Plains Wind, LLC · Salt Fork Wind Project, LLC · Fort Rucker Solar Array · ANAD Solar Array · Wallace Dam · Reading Wind Project · Cactus Flats Wind Energy Project · Gaskell West 1 Solar Facility · Comer Solar · Robins Air Force Base Solar · Wildhorse Mountain Wind Facility · Harris Dam · Moody Air Force Base Solar · Guyton Community Solar · Atlanta Falcons Solar · Waynesboro Community Solar · Beech Ridge II Wind Energy Center · Deuel Harvest Wind Energy LLC · Fort Valley State University Solar · Skookumchuck Wind Facility · Glass Sands Wind Facility · Vogtle · Walnut Grove Demonstration Plant · South Cheyenne Solar · McIntosh Solar · Bartletts Ferry · Burton · Flint River · Goat Rock · Lloyd Shoals · Morgan Falls · Nacoochee · North Highlands · Oliver Dam · Sinclair Dam · Tallulah Falls · Terrora · Tugalo · Yonah

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