Southern Company

Southern Company is a holding company for electric and gas utilities that serve approximately 9 million customers and businesses. Southern Company operates three electric subsidiaries (Alabama Power, Georgia Power, and Mississippi Power), four gas distribution subsidiaries (Atlanta Gas Light, Chattanooga Gas, Nicor Gas, and Virginia Natural Gas). Southern also operates an unregulated energy development subsidiary known as Southern Power.

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Utility-funded Republican and Democratic groups try to leverage rising utility bills in New Jersey’s race for governor
October 20, 2025
Investor-owned utilities and utility industry groups have made nearly $2 million in cash and in-kind contributions this year to the Republican Governors Association and Democratic Governors Association, amid an election cycle where both groups have tried to make political hay out of rising electricity bills in New Jersey’s race for governor.  The Republican Governors Association...

Georgia PSC incumbents take majority of campaign money from regulated utility interests
August 13, 2025
Georgia Public Service Commission incumbents Fitz Johnson and Tim Echols have each received most of their campaign funding, since January 2024, from individuals and companies associated with the monopoly utilities they regulate. In the District 3 race, incumbent Commissioner Fitz Johnson has received more than 87 percent of his campaign contributions from donors tied to...

Georgia Power loses legal battle over Nestlé’s clean energy demand
June 16, 2025
After five years of aggressive legal maneuvering, Georgia Power has lost its battle to stop Nestlé Purina from choosing a different Georgia utility that could deliver better renewable energy options to its factory. In doing so, Georgia Power not only lost a major customer, it handed Walton EMC a victory that may open a new...

Utilities Quietly Walk Back Commitments to Diverse Hiring, Social Justice
April 30, 2025
After spending the past half-decade scaling up efforts to diversify their workforces and suppliers as well as making and touting donations to social justice organizations, corporate utilities across the U.S. have begun to water down or abandon their commitments to promote diversity within their businesses and better serve communities of color. The retreat coincides with...
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