Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000092122-25-000084
Chunk: 156

Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 1
Chunk 156
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 volumes sold compared to 2024, a $49 million increase related to expenses passed through to customers, a $43 million increase in depreciation primarily due to additional plant in service related to continued investments at the natural gas distribution utilities, and a $22 million increase related to employee compensation and benefit expenses, partially offset by a decrease of $20 million related to certain deferred expenses.

•Interest expense, net of amounts capitalized increased $23 million primarily due to higher average outstanding borrowings.

•Income taxes decreased $16 million primarily as a result of the flowback of excess state deferred income taxes and lower pre-tax earnings.

Gas Pipeline Investments

The gas pipeline investments segment consists primarily of joint ventures in natural gas pipeline investments including SNG and Dalton Pipeline. See Note (E) to the Condensed Financial Statements under "Southern Company Gas" herein for additional information.

In the third quarter and year-to-date 2025, net income decreased $4 million and $15 million, respectively, when compared to the corresponding periods in 2024. The decreases were primarily due to lower rates at SNG.

Gas Marketing Services

The gas marketing services segment provides energy-related products and services to natural gas markets and participants in customer choice programs that were approved in various states to increase competition. These programs allow customers to choose their natural gas supplier while the local distribution utility continues to provide distribution and transportation services. Gas marketing services is weather sensitive and uses a variety of hedging strategies, such as weather derivative instruments and other risk management tools, to partially mitigate potential weather impacts.

In the third quarter 2025, net income was $3 million compared to a net loss of $2 million for the corresponding period in 2024. The change was primarily due to higher retail margins, partially offset by higher income taxes.

For year-to-date 2025, net income increased $5 million, or 6.9%, when compared to the corresponding period in 2024 primarily due to higher retail margins, partially offset by an increase in employee compensation and benefits and proceeds from a legal settlement received in 2024.

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All Other

All other includes a renewable natural gas business, AGL Services Company, and Southern Company Gas Capital, as well as various corporate operating expenses that are not allocated to the reportable segments and interest income (expense) associated with affiliate financing arrangements. See Note