Southern Company is a public utility holding company of primarily electric utilities in the southern United States. It is headquartered in Atlanta Georgia with executive offices also located in Birmingham Alabama. The company is currently the 16th largest utility company in the world and the fourth largest in the U.S. Through its subsidiaries it owns and operates more than 42 000 megawatts of generation capacity and serves 4.3 million customers in Alabama Georgia Florida and Mississippi.
Key people are Anthony J. Topazi, Chief Operating Officer, Art P. Beattie, Chief Financial Officer, Thomas A. Fanning and President and Chief Executive Officer.