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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 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 generation fleet to more cost-effective, lower-emitting generating resources. Our generating fleet transition plans and GHG goal setting processes take into consideration many factors, including resilience, reliability and affordability as well as GHG reduction. Incorporating each of these important elements allows us to follow an achievable and orderly track as we pursue our net zero by 2050 goal.

4 We continue to make progress toward our interim goal of reducing Scope 1 GHG emissions by 50% from 2007 levels by 2030. We have preliminarily achieved GHG reductions of 49% below 2007 levels in 2024.

4 We continue to project our owned and contracted renewables and energy storage resources to reach approximately 21,000 MW by 2030.

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