Thirty-two high school seniors will enroll in a four-year college [or] university, community college, or vocational school in Alabama this year with help from Energy Southeast and its member cities/utilities through the 2025 Energy Southeast Scholarship Program.

This year’s Energy Southeast Scholarship Program recipients from Luverne are Luverne School students M’Kayla Shybri Dawson and Amiracle N. Taylor.

“We take our role as a good corporate citizen seriously,” said Fred D. Clark, Jr., Energy Southeast  President & CEO. “That’s why we, along with our mMembers, support education initiatives, like  the Energy Southeast Scholarship Program, that contribute to making our state economically competitive. We congratulate this year’s scholarship winners.”

Each of the 32 recipients will receive a $2,500 scholarship for a total of $80,000 awarded in this year’s program. Energy Southeast received 98 scholarship applications in the 2025 program.

Since 1992, Energy Southeast and its members have provided over $3.5 million in scholarships  to the graduating high school seniors who receive their electric service from Energy Southeast  members.

To be eligible for the scholarships, a student’s family must receive electric service from an Energy Southeast member city electric utility and the student must attend an Alabama  college/university or vocational school.

Energy Southeast, a joint action agency formed in 1981, is the wholesale power provider for 11 public power utilities in Alabama, which serve approximately 350,000 customers in the cities of Alexander City, Dothan,  Fairhope, Foley, LaFayette, Lanett, Luverne, Opelika, Piedmont, Sylacauga and Tuskegee.