Southern Company is America's premier energy company, with more than 9 million customers, 44,000 megawatts of generating capacity and 1,500 billion cubic feet of combined natural gas consumption and throughput volume. A leading U.S. provider of clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy, Southern Company owns electric utilities in three states and natural gas distribution utilities in four, and provide wholesale energy, customized distributed energy solutions and fiber optics and wireless communications across the country.