22 Facts About Southern Company

Southern Company is an American gas and electric utility holding company based in the southern United States.

Southern Company is the second largest utility company in the US in terms of customer base, as of 2021.

Southern Company's regulated regional electric utilities serve a 120,000-square-mile territory with 27,000 miles of distribution lines.

Southern Company is one of the largest energy providers in the United States and is ranked 126th on the Fortune 500 listing of the largest US corporations.

In 1981, Southern Company became the first electric utility holding company in 46 years to diversify its operations by forming an unregulated subsidiary.

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On January 9,2001, Southern Company received final approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission to form Southern Power, a subsidiary to own, manage and finance wholesale generating assets in the Southeast.

On July 19,2002, Southern Company Gas received certification from the Georgia Public Service Commission to enter the retail gas market.

In 2016, Southern Company acquired PowerSecure, a distributed energy infrastructure technologies company, and AGL Resources.

Southern Company subsidiaries operate hydroelectric, gas, coal, and nuclear generation sources to generate approximately 200 terawatt-hours of electricity.

However in March 2017 Westinghouse Electric Southern Company, who were building the plant, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy because of $9 billion of losses from its two US nuclear construction projects.

Preemptively recognizing the need for these changes, Southern Company broke ground on its 21st-century clean coal facility in June 2010.

One of the more significant joint efforts, the DOE's National Carbon Capture Center, is managed by Southern Company and represents national efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from coal-based power generation.

At this location, Southern Company has been working with scientists and technology developers from government, industry, and universities who are creating the next generation of carbon capture technologies.

In May 2018, it was reported that Southern Company had donated $1 million to America First Policies, a pro-Donald Trump advocacy group.

Southern Company is the third-largest producer of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, emitting 86,244,286 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2019.

Southern Company participates in Renew Our Rivers, a volunteer program to remove debris from rivers and other waterways throughout the Southeast, which claims over 11 million pounds of trash removed or recycled in Renew Our Rivers events.

Southern Company manages and operates the National Carbon Capture Center, a focal point of the US Department of Energy's efforts to develop carbon capture and greenhouse gas reduction technologies, under which various projects to test geologic sequestration are in progress at Plant Gorgas in Alabama, Plant Daniel in Mississippi and other company sites.

Southern Company has a long history of funding climate change denial and has been a "driving force behind climate disinformation, " sponsoring campaigns in opposition to climate science, against limiting greenhouse gas emissions, and slowing the transition to renewable energy sources.

Between 1993 and 2004 Southern Company paid over $62 million to organizations that spread disinformation about climate change.

Southern Company was found to have unlawfully fired a whistle-blower who had criticized alleged false statements by company management.

In June 2021, Georgia Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company, was scrutinized by the Georgia Public Service Commission over the lengthy delays and ballooning costs of its new Vogtle nuclear plant in Burke County, Georgia.