Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000092122-25-000036
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Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: DEF 14A
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shareholdermeeting.com/SO2025 and entering the 16-digit control number on your proxy card, voting instruction form or Notice of Internet Availability. Stockholders who do not receive a 16-digit control number should consult their voting instruction form or Notice of Internet Availability and may need to obtain a legal proxy in advance of the virtual annual meeting in order to participate. See page 93 for more information about the virtual annual meeting.

#### 2Southern Company2025 Proxy Statement
Letter from our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Dear Fellow Stockholders:

You are invited to attend the Southern Company 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders at 10:00 a.m., ET, on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. We will be conducting the annual meeting online via live webcast to allow greater stockholder participation in the meeting. See page 93 for information about how to participate in the virtual annual meeting. 2024 was another outstanding year for Southern Company. We celebrated monumental milestones and navigated unprecedented challenges. Our many achievements include delivering strong financial results, celebrating commercial operation for Georgia Power's Vogtle Unit 4, making progress on our net zero goal, continuing to advocate for sound energy policy, advancing our energy portfolio and transitioning for the future, seeking out opportunities to run more efficiently, executing a historic storm response and more, all while staying intently focused on Our Values and our culture. Excelling at the Fundamentals I am most proud of how our team continued to put customers first throughout 2024. While this is our daily mission, our dedication was especially evident as we came together over the past year in response to several weather events that impacted many of our customers. In late September, Hurricane Helene swept through Georgia, leaving catastrophic damage so severe that entire sections of the power grid had to be rebuilt. The numbers were staggering - nearly 12,000 poles were broken, over 1,500 miles of wire downed and more than 5,800 transformers were damaged. But the response effort was nothing short of monumental. More than 20,000 personnel worked to restore service as safely and quickly as possible, including teammates from Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Mississippi Power, Atlanta Gas Light and Virginia Natural Gas. Another monumental achievement was the completion of Georgia Power's Vogtle Unit 4 - making Plant Vogtle the largest generator of clean energy in the nation. This long-term investment will benefit customers and communities in Georgia for the next 60 to 80 years, helping us to meet the energy demands of our growing