Southern Company () is a US electricity corporation.

Southern Company, whose headquarters are in Atlanta, Georgia, owns the following companies:

• Alabama Power
• Georgia Power
• Gulf Power
• Mississippi Power
• Southern Nuclear
• SouthernLINC Wireless
• Southern Company Gas
• Savannah Electric & Power On July 1st, 2006, Savannah Electric was merged into Georgia Power.

Comprising more than 39,000 megawatts of capacity delivered to 4 million customers in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida.

Southern Company is the majority owner and operator of the Farley, Hatch and Vogtle nuclear power plants.

Foreign Expansion

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In 1995, Southern bought the British South Western Electricity Board. This was the first purchase of a foreign power corporation by a US power corporation. However, in 2003, SWEB would be sold to a French company, EDF Energy.

See also

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• Reliant Energy
• TXU
• Horton, Jacob

External links

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• Company Website

Companies based in Georgia (U.S. state) | Fortune 1000 | Power companies of the United States