Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000092122-25-000018
Chunk: 4653

Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 3
Chunk 4653
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 and handle customer billing functions. As required by the Georgia PSC, Atlanta Gas Light bills Marketers in equal monthly installments for each residential, commercial, and industrial end-use customer's distribution costs as well as for capacity costs utilizing a seasonal rate design for the calculation of each residential end-use customer's annual straight-fixed-variable charge, which reflects the historic volumetric usage pattern for the entire residential class. With the exception of Atlanta Gas Light, the natural gas distribution utilities have rate structures that include volumetric rate designs that allow the opportunity to recover certain costs based on gas usage.The tariffs for the natural gas distribution utilities include provisions which allow for the recognition of certain revenues prior to the time such revenues are billed to customers. These provisions are referred to as alternative revenue programs and provide for the recognition of certain revenues prior to billing, as long as the amounts recognized will be collected from customers within 24 months of recognition. Revenue related to alternative revenue programs was $43 million, $20 million, and $(5) million in 2024, 2023, and 2022, respectively. These programs primarily consist of:•Weather normalization adjustments – reduce customer bills when winter weather is colder than normal and increase customer bills when weather is warmer than normal and are included in the tariffs for Virginia Natural Gas and Chattanooga Gas;•Revenue normalization mechanisms – mitigate the impact of conservation and declining customer usage and are contained in the tariffs for Virginia Natural Gas and Nicor Gas; and•Revenue true-up adjustment – included within the provisions of the GRAM program in which Atlanta Gas Light participates as a short-term alternative to formal rate case filings, the revenue true-up feature provides for a positive (or negative) adjustment to record revenue in the amount of any variance to budgeted revenues, which are submitted and approved annually as a requirement of GRAM. Such adjustments are reflected in customer billings in a subsequent program year.Gas Marketing ServicesGas marketing services is comprised of several choice-based natural gas marketers operating in various deregulated jurisdictions. While gas marketing services follows the same general approach to revenue recognition described for Southern Company Gas above, it recognizes revenues on certain 12-month utility-bill management contracts as the lesser of cumulative earned or cumulative billed amounts.

Concentration of RevenueSouthern Company, Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Mississippi Power (with the exception of its full requirements cost-based MRA electric tariffs described below), Southern Power, and Southern Company Gas each have a diversified base of customers and no single customer comprises 10% or more of each company's revenues.Mississippi Power provides service