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
Chunk 8
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 Georgia Power's 140-year history. Nearly 1.5 million customers were impacted by the storm, and our response efforts involved more than 20,000 electric and natural gas personnel, including teammates from Georgia Power, Alabama Power, Mississippi Power, Atlanta Gas Light, Virginia Natural Gas and numerous other utility partners who provided mutual assistance.

4 We maintained constructive relationships with state regulatory agencies that will allow our utilities to continue to further enhance safety, modernize infrastructure and improve reliability.

4 We demonstrated outstanding operational performance throughout the year, including serving an all-time record winter peak load of 39,934 MW in January 2024.

4 Across the company, we remained focused on the safety and reliability of our systems. At our electric utilities, we exceeded targets for customer satisfaction, net zero availability, electricity generation and transmission reliability. At our natural gas utilities, we exceeded targets for customer service, miles of main replaced and leak response times.

4 At Southern Nuclear, Plants Farley and Hatch achieved the highest performance ratings possible from the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations.

Investing for a Bright Energy Future

4 Southern Company subsidiary Georgia Power brought Plant Vogtle Unit 4 safely into commercial operation in April 2024. Vogtle Unit 3 previously entered commercial operation on July 31, 2023. With all four units in operation, Plant Vogtle is the largest generator of clean energy in the nation, expected to produce more than 30 million megawatt hours of electricity each year. In addition to providing a new source of clean, reliable energy for Georgia, the construction of the new units at Plant Vogtle has provided billions of dollars of positive economic impact for Georgia and local communities.

4 Also at Georgia Power, the company completed its first “grid-connected” battery energy storage system (BESS). The Mossy Branch Battery Facility is capable of 65 MW of battery storage that can be deployed back to the grid over a four-hour period, adding resiliency to the state’s power grid and helping ensure reliable energy for a growing Georgia.

4 Our Southern Power subsidiary commenced commercial operation of its 30th solar site, the South Cheyenne Solar Facility, and continued expansion of its Millers' Branch facility.

4 Virginia Natural Gas first procured Next Generation Natural Gas for its customers in 2019 and, as of April 2024, 100% of its customers’ energy demands are being supplied with this lower-emissions product. These efforts were facilitated by the Virginia legislature’s Energy Innovation Act.

4 We maintained focus on responsibly transitioning our