The Southern Company Company Description

The Southern Company, through its subsidiaries, engages in the sale of electricity.

The company offers electric service to retail customers and wholesale customers; and energy-related products and services to natural gas choice markets.

It also develops, constructs, acquires, owns, operates, and manages power generation assets, as well as battery energy storage projects; sells electricity at market-based rates in the wholesale market; and deploys microgrids for commercial, industrial, governmental, and utility customers.

In addition, the company is involved in the distribution of natural gas in Illinois, Georgia, Virginia, and Tennessee; distributes energy and resilience solutions; and invests in telecommunications.

The Southern Company was incorporated in 1945 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.