The Southern Company, through its subsidiaries, engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity. It operates through Gas Distribution Operations, Gas Pipeline Investments, Wholesale Gas Services, and Gas Marketing Services segments. The company also develops, constructs, acquires, owns, and manages power generation assets, including renewable energy projects and sells electricity in the wholesale market; and distributes natural gas in Illinois, Georgia, Virginia, and Tennessee, as well as provides gas marketing services, wholesale gas services, and gas pipeline investments operations. In addition, it owns and/or operates 30 hydroelectric generating stations, 24 fossil fuel generating stations, three nuclear generating stations, 13 combined cycle/cogeneration stations, 45 solar facilities, 15 wind facilities, one fuel cell facility, and four battery storage facility; and constructs, operates, and maintains 76,289 miles of natural gas pipelines and 14 storage facilities with total capacity of 157 Bcf to provide natural gas to residential, commercial, and industrial customers. The company serves approximately 8.7 million electric and gas utility customers. Further, the company offers digital wireless communications and fiber optics services. The Southern Company was incorporated in 1945 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Together with our subsidiaries, we deliver clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy to our 9 million customers. Our focus is doing so with service excellence. 

That means we are leaders who take action to meet our customers’ and communities’ needs while advancing our commitment to net zero emissions by 2050. We create community value through energy, social, economic, and environmental progress. 

We do this through electric operating companies in three states and natural gas distribution companies in four. Our family of companies draw on diverse energy sources to create the best mix for our service areas, including electricity, natural gas, solar power, carbon-free nuclear, and other sustainable sources. 

We leverage our leading distributed energy infrastructure company and other innovative technology to better serve every customer. Our competitive, national generation company serves wholesale customers, and our family includes a fiber optics network, and telecommunications services.



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Check out the latest episode of Lunch Table! In this episode, our CEO, Chris Womack, talks with former Atlanta Falcons quarterback and now CBS Sports commentator, Matt Ryan.

During their conversation, Matt sheds light on being part of a team, what it takes to foster a positive and productive team culture, and how these lessons translate into effective leadership.

At Southern Company, in the spirit of Black History Month, we are using good energy to foster equity and create opportunities for a brighter tomorrow. 

We’ve been building upon years of dedicated work in diversity and inclusion.
In 2020, we developed our equity framework, Moving to Equity, to ensure our actions help lead to sustained change. 

Our impact last year includes:

- Enhancing our hiring practices
- Increasing representation for both people of color and women
- Refreshing Our Values with a renewed emphasis on intentional inclusion 
- Onboarding more diverse suppliers
- Engaging and forming partnerships with organizations that actively   promote justice and positive change 
- Investing $201 million to drive social change in our communities since 2020

Our work is not episodic, every day we are continuing to identify the obstacles and opportunities that lie ahead as we move boldly forward in our equity journey. 

Learn more about the impact we’re making in our 2023 Moving to Equity report: https://lnkd.in/e4xRn7ZN

In 2022, Renee Powell was recognized as the inaugural recipient of the ‘Charlie Sifford Award presented by Southern Company’.

The Charlie Sifford Award was created in 2021 by the World Golf Hall of Fame to honor an individual who personifies Sifford’s groundbreaking achievements of diversifying the game of golf through perseverance, confidence, respect, and adaptability.

Powell – the second African American woman to ever compete on the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour – demonstrated resilience amidst her own obstacles of racial adversity and segregation and has dedicated her life to making golf a sport for all.


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