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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#### Board’s Recommendation and Statement
The Board has carefully considered this proposal and recommends that you vote AGAINST the proposal for the reasons described below.

Southern already publicly discloses detailed information about its decarbonization strategy.

Southern is committed to providing our customers and communities with clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy, and our decarbonization strategy is a key component of this mission. We are also committed to transparency, and we provide industry-leading disclosure regarding our decarbonization strategy.

We publicly provide detailed disclosure about our decarbonization goals, strategy and performance, including disclosures aligned with the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures framework and additional climate-related disclosures, on our website. These disclosures include our Net Zero Q&A Supplement, which was published in response to our past conversations with the proponent and other stakeholders. The Supplement directly describes our view of the renewable resource economic potential in our jurisdictions and how this impacts decarbonization pathways in the relevant jurisdictions. Moreover