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Southern Company Country : USA

Headquartered in Atlanta , Georgia , Southern Company was founded in 1945 . Through its subsidiaries , the company owns and operates more than 42,000 MW of generation capacity . Southern owns four retail electric companies : Alabama Power , Georgia Power , Gulf Power and Mississippi Power , which , combined , serve over

120,000 square miles and 4.3 million customers . Thomas A . Fanning serves as the company ’ s chairman , president , and CEO . Currently , Southern Company is building the first new nuclear units in the U . S . in 30 years at Plant Vogtle near Augusta , Georgia as well as one of the largest photovoltaic plants in the United States at Cimarron , New Mexico .

www . southerncompany . com

38 July 2014