The Southern Company JR 2017B NT 77

The Southern Company through its subsidiaries engages in the generation transmission and distribution of electricity. The company also constructs acquires owns and manages power generation assets including renewable energy facilities and sells electricity in the wholesale market; and distributes natural gas in Illinois Georgia Virginia New Jersey Florida Tennessee and Maryland as well as provides gas marketing services wholesale gas services and gas midstream operations. It owns and/or operates 33 hydroelectric generating stations 29 fossil fuel generating stations 3 nuclear generating stations 15 combined cycle/cogeneration stations 35 solar facilities 8 wind facilities 1 biomass facility and 1 landfill gas facility; and constructs operates and maintains 82000 miles of natural gas pipelines and 14 storage facilities with total capacity of 158 Bcf to provide natural gas to residential commercial and industrial customers. The company has 46000 megawatts of generating capacity and 1500 billion cubic feet of combined natural gas consumption and throughput volume serving 9 million electric and gas utility customers. It also provides products and services in the areas of distributed generation infrastructure energy efficiency and utility infrastructure. In addition the company offers digital wireless communications services with various communication options including push to talk cellular service text messaging wireless Internet access and wireless data. The Southern Company was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in Atlanta Georgia.