Jeff Peoples

Chairman, President & CEO, Alabama Power (subsidiary), Southern Company

Search every verified Jeff Peoples interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. At the 2024 U.S. Legislative Conference, Jeff Peoples, Chairman, President, and CEO of Alabama Power, addressed the North American Building Trades, expressing appreciation for the organization's role in the energy industry. He stated that Southern Company and its subsidiaries rely on the Building Trades for construction, maintenance, and training, and he highlighted that no member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) had been displaced during the company's fleet transition. Peoples also mentioned the creation of the first connectivity crew in America, which handles fiber installation, and reported meaningful manpower growth in gas utilities. Peoples discussed the commercial operation of the Barry 8 project, a 726-megawatt gas-fired combined cycle plant in Mobile, Alabama, which he said was completed on budget and on schedule with the help of employees, contractors, and Building Trades members. He cited a three-year average of 52 million man-hours for all craft labor, with 65% attributed to union members, equating to 10,000 additional full-time jobs for union members annually. Peoples emphasized a commitment to evolving the generation fleet from fossil fuels to cleaner energy solutions and to finding opportunities for union labor on solar and other clean energy projects, stating that Alabama Power would not leave old friends to make new ones.