Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-07-31
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000092122-25-000076
Chunk: 325

Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-07-31
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 8
Chunk 325
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, the remaining pre-tax accelerated depreciation, net of noncontrolling interest impacts, is projected to total approximately $215 million in 2025, $320 million in 2026, and $25 million in 2027. The ultimate outcome of this matter cannot be determined at this time. See Note (K) to the Condensed Financial Statements under "Southern Power" herein for information relating to Southern Power's construction of renewable energy facilities.

Southern Company Gas is engaged in various infrastructure improvement programs designed to update or expand the natural gas distribution systems of the natural gas distribution utilities to improve reliability and resiliency, reduce emissions, and meet operational flexibility and growth. The natural gas distribution utilities recover their investment and a return associated with these infrastructure programs through their regulated rates, as approved by their applicable state regulatory agency. See Note 2 to the financial statements in Item 8 of the Form 10-K for additional information on Southern Company Gas' construction program.

See FINANCIAL CONDITION AND LIQUIDITY – "Cash Requirements" herein for additional information regarding the Registrants' capital requirements for their construction programs.

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Income Tax Matters

See Note (G) to the Condensed Financial Statements herein and MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS – FUTURE EARNINGS POTENTIAL – "Income Tax Matters" in Item 7 of the Form 10-K for additional information.

Federal Tax Legislation

The OBBB was signed into law on July 4, 2025. It extends many of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act's provisions that were set to expire and makes some of them permanent. The OBBB includes major changes to tax incentives for renewable energy projects. The legislation restricts the ITCs and PTCs for solar and wind power projects, which were originally set to run through 2032. Such projects must now either begin construction by July 2026 or be fully operational by the end of 2027 in order to claim the applicable tax credits. Nuclear, hydropower, and geothermal energy projects maintain tax credits under the new law. Battery energy storage projects retain their full tax credit through 2033, with a gradual phase-out by 2036. The OBBB adds new restrictions for tax credits for renewable facilities that are owned or influenced by a prohibited foreign entity or receive material assistance from a prohibited foreign