Southeastern Power Administration The Southeastern Power
Administration is a United States Power Marketing Administration
with responsibility for marketing hydroelectric power from 23
water projects operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in
the states of West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and
Kentucky. Southeastern was created in 1950 by the Secretary of
the Interior to carry out functions assigned to the Secretary by
the Flood Control Act of 1944. In 1977, it was transferred to
the United States Department of Energy when that department was
created. The agency is headquartered in Elberton, Georgia. It
markets electric power to nearly 500 wholesale customers,
including electrical cooperatives, government-operated electric
distributors and investor-owned utilities in Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, and southern Illinois. The
objectives of Southeastern are to marke