Southern Company (NYSE: SO) is an Atlanta-based energy holding company that provides electric and gas utility services and owns power generation assets across the United States. Founded in 1945, the company operates a portfolio of regulated electric utilities and affiliated businesses that generate, transmit and distribute electricity to residential, commercial and industrial customers.
Southern’s principal regulated electric subsidiaries include Georgia Power, Alabama Power and Mississippi Power, which serve large portions of the southeastern United States. The company also conducts wholesale and competitive generation through Southern Power and provides natural gas distribution and related services via Southern Company Gas. Its generation mix includes conventional thermal plants, nuclear facilities and a growing fleet of renewable energy projects such as utility-scale solar and wind.
The company is involved in major infrastructure and grid modernization initiatives, including investments in transmission upgrades, distributed energy resources, energy efficiency programs and technologies to support reliability and decarbonization. Southern Company’s operations encompass both regulated utility service and competitive energy businesses, enabling it to serve retail customers, wholesale markets and industrial clients.
Listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker SO, Southern Company is a prominent energy provider in the southeastern U.S. and is actively pursuing strategies to adapt its generation portfolio and grid capabilities to evolving regulatory and market demands related to clean energy and resilience.