Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0000092122-25-000032
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Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: PRE 14A
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 as a residential Customer Champion and a Most Trusted Brand for 2024. Our natural gas utilities outperformed the industry in customer satisfaction and scored highly in customer service interactions.

4 The Nicor Gas Energy Efficiency Program’s Community Connection Center (C3) received an E Source 2024 Achievement in Residential Customer Experience Award. Launched in 2022, C3 is a unique offering focused on providing customers with energy efficiency and bill payment assistance options. C3 connects income-eligible customers with local grants, community partners and free resources that can assist beyond their energy bills. Since its inception, the C3 team has helped Nicor Gas customers tap into more than $18 million in energy assistance grants. Over 4,500 customers have received free energy efficiency services through the program and more than 5,000 families have been provided free groceries.

4 Alabama Power was named as the recipient of the Edison Electric Institute's (EEI) Emergency Response Award for its mutual assistance efforts following Hurricanes Beryl and Helene in 2024. The award recognizes recovery and assistance efforts of electric companies following disruptions of service due to extreme weather or other events. Alabama Power dispatched a 350-person team to support restoration efforts in the Houston area following Hurricane Beryl and 1,000 employees to the state of Georgia following Hurricane Helene. Since 1998, Alabama Power has received 19 Mutual Assistance and 14 Storm Recovery Awards from EEI, making the company the most awarded among EEI members.

4 We are committed to supporting and improving our communities while conducting business with honesty, integrity and fairness. Southern Company and our subsidiaries weave together financial grants, philanthropic programs, community board leadership and employee volunteerism to create positive momentum our communities.

#### Southern Company2025 Proxy Statement7

#### Company Performance
| 4In 2024, our companies and foundations invested over $85 million in grants, sponsorships and impact investments across our territories.                                                                                                                                                                                         
 4Our operating companies also play leadership roles in economic development efforts across the states and regions where we operate. In 2024, our economic development groups supported initiatives that resulted in the announcement of more than 20,000 jobs and $14 billion of investment in our electric service territories. |

Leading Through Innovation

4 For more than five decades, Southern Company’s world-class Research and Development organization has remained at the forefront of innovation. The organization’s research portfolio spans technology development for energy production, delivery and use, and is facilitating our transition to a net-zero energy system.

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