Southern Company

Southern Company
legal form	Corporation
ISIN	US8425871071
Seat	Atlanta , United States
management	Thomas A. Fanning
Number of employees	26,369 (2014)
sales	18.4 billion US dollars (2014)
Branch	Electricity supplier
Website	www.southerncompany.com

Southern Company is a US energy company headquartered in Atlanta , Georgia . The company is listed on the S&P 500 stock index and the Dow Jones Utility Average .

The company produces and sells electricity to its customers in the US states of Alabama , Georgia , Florida and Mississippi .

Subsidiaries and investments

• Alabama Power
• Georgia Power
• Gulf Power
• Mississippi Power
• Southern Company Services
• Southern Power
• Southern Communications Services
• Southern Telecom
• Southern Nuclear (operator of the nuclear power plants Plant Hatch , Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Generating Station , Vogtle Electric Generating Plant )

In 1995 Southern Company acquired the British South Western Electricity Board (SWEB). For the first time, a US utility company acquired a foreign, private energy company. SWEB was sold in 2003 by Southern Company to the French energy company EDF Energy .

Web links

• Southern Company

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Southern Company 2014 Form 10-K report
2. ^ Southern: Nuclear Power Development ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.