Hank Adams
Chief Business Development Officer
Southern Power
Hank Adams serves as Chief Business Development Officer for Southern Power. He is responsible for leading the company’s business development strategy, including our focus on new large load customer opportunities with natural gas, storage and renewable solutions. This includes coordinating unregulated activities for new large load customers across the country for PowerSecure, Southern Telecom and National Accounts. He will also lead the Partnership and Competitive Intelligence team supporting Southern Power’s numerous partnerships and engaging with internal and external stakeholders to identify industry issues.
Prior to this role, he served as senior vice president of Customer Solutions and Corporate Development for Southern Company. In this role, he was responsible for delivering growth, customer solutions and system collaboration across all Southern Company’s gas and electric subsidiaries. He oversaw National Accounts and Federal Energy Services and teams that managed Southern Company’s national corporate energy users and federal government customers. He also led the Planning and Regulatory support team that develops Southern Company’s forecasted energy demand and, specifically, the New Ventures organization that manages the company’s founding investment in Energy Impact Partners, a $3 billion utility-backed venture capital fund dedicated to accelerating the energy transition.
Adams also served as vice president of Origination and Acquisitions for Southern Power. In this role, he led business development efforts including acquisitions for 2+ GW of renewable assets totaling $3B+ in capex and recontracting of 2.5 GWs of natural gas assets. Prior to Southern Power, Adams served in various external affairs roles at Georgia Power including area manager, external affairs manager and assistant to the executive vice president of external affairs and nuclear development.
He currently serves on the board for Alliance for Transportation Electrification and is a former board member of the California Energy Storage Association. In the community, he has serves on several committees and boards including Boys and Girls Club of Central Alabama and Rome/Floyd County Communities in Schools.
Adams earned his bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from Georgia Tech and MBA from Auburn University.
Phone: (407) 247-5574 Email:hadams@southernco.com
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Where do you call home? Our family lives in Birmingham,Alabama. I grew up in Waynesboro, Georgia as my mother and grandfather worked at Georgia Power’s Plant Vogtle.
What are your hobbies? I love coaching kids sports, specifically baseball and football. It provides me a great opportunity to see my kids overcome adversity on the field and get to help provide some life lessons along the way. I also love to golf, fish, hunt and travel.
What’s the best vacation you’ve taken? For the last 5 years, we’ve taken the boys skiing out west each winter. That is the vacation I look forward to most each year.
Favorite food? Thai cuisine.
If you were stuck on an island, what three things would you bring? Knife, Tarp, Firestarter A close fourth would be a sudoku puzzle book or crossword puzzles.
Tell us something we might not know about you. I am the oldest of 8 kids. Ashley and I have 20 nieces and nephews.
What is the last book you read? My last three books are: James (currently reading), The Match (by Mark Frost), and Black Titan (story of AG Gaston).
Tell us something on your bucket list. Play golf in Scottland and Ireland.
What is the first thing you’d buy if you won the lottery? A trip to Scottland and Ireland.
What is your biggest pet peeve? Someone not being polite to a server.
Do you have a hidden talent? Not that I am aware of.
What are you currently watching (movie/tv show)? Big fan of Yellowstone and Landman.