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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 included our net zero by 2050 goal, decarbonization efforts, R&D, enhancing affordability and resilience. Twenty stakeholders participated in the forum. Stakeholder participants include regional environmental and socially focused non-governmental organizations, stockholder advocacy groups and state pension funds. We also invited the co-lead investors of our Climate Action 100+ investor engagement team to participate. |

In October 2024, we hosted a virtual stakeholder dialogue centered around grid planning to provide stakeholders an overview of our system planning and grid planning processes including ways to engage in those processes. Speakers included leaders from our system planning and transmission planning organizations. Over 20 stakeholders participated in this event. In October 2024, we also held an open house at our Washington D.C. office for local stakeholders to connect in person with our CEO, Chief Legal Officer, COO, President of External Affairs, SVP of Research, Environment and Sustainability and VP of System Planning.

We had several follow-up conversations with stakeholder participants to further discuss topics raised at these meetings.

#### Southern Company2025 Proxy Statement37

#### Governance

#### Director Compensation
Only non-employee Directors of the Company are compensated for service on the Board.

For 2024, the pay components for non-employee Directors were:

| Annual cash retainers                                                                                              |     |         |
| Cash retainer                                                                                                      |     | 120,000 |
| Additional cash retainer if serving as the Lead Independent Director of the Board                                  |     |  35,000 |
| Additional cash retainer if serving as a chair of a standing committee of the Board other than the Audit Committee |     |  20,000 |
| Additional cash retainer if serving as chair of the Audit Committee                                                |     |  25,000 |
| Annual equity grant                                                                                                |     |         |
| In deferred common stock units until Board membership ends                                                         |     | 170,000 |
| Meeting fees                                                                                                       |     |         |
| Meeting fees are not paid for participation in a meeting of the Board                                              |     |       — |
| Meeting fees are not paid for participation in a meeting of a committee or subcommittee of the Board               |     |       — |

#### Director Compensation Table
The following table reports compensation to the non-employee Directors during 2024.

| Name                   |     | Fees Earned orPaid in Cash($)(1) |         |     | StockAwards($)(2) |         |     | All OtherCompensation($)(3) |