Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0000092122-25-000032
Chunk: 11

Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 11
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 National Carbon Capture Center (NCCC), funded by the Department of Energy (DOE) and other sponsors and managed by Southern Company, continues to advance CO2capture, conversion, and removal technologies. In 2024, the NCCC announced it surpassed 150,000 hours of technology testing, aiding the development of cost-effective and commercially viable carbon management technologies to reduce GHG emissions. Additionally, nine technology projects with a direct testing connection to the NCCC received DOE funding awards, demonstrating the facility’s role in progressing technologies from laboratory development to commercial deployment. The center also completed its first tests of direct air capture and cryogenic carbon capture technologies. 
 4In 2024, Georgia Power and Urbint were awarded EEI's Thomas F. Farrell, II Safety Leadership and Innovation Award for their partnership to create a revolutionary artificial intelligence-powered hazard recognition and reporting tool to enhance workforce safety.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
 4We continue to leverage innovative collaborations, including our partnership with Energy Impact Partners, the world’s largest utility-backed, clean tech investor coalition with over $4 billion in assets under management. In 2024, we piloted multiple innovative solutions across the Southern Company system to enhance customer value, modernize our business, and sustainably serve our growing communities.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |

Innovating How We Work

4 Our people are at the center of our mission to provide clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy. How we do our work is just as important as what we do.

4 Throughout 2024, we challenged our leaders to think differently and evaluate how we operate as an enterprise. Through a collaborative ideation and review process, our leaders identified multiple opportunities to refine and align our Company strategy. This process offered an exciting opportunity for our collective leadership teams to positively position our Company, stakeholders and employees to discuss continued long-term success, and to enhance our Company culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.

4 We aim to foster a culture of belonging to attract, develop and retain a sustainable and capable workforce. We encourage different ideas and points of view, and our Code of Ethics affirms our expectation that employees treat each other with fairness, respect and dignity. Our 30 employee-led groups, councils and networks continue to grow and enrich our culture by providing valuable mentoring programs, volunteering and networking opportunities for employees.

4 We offer competitive pay and invest in comprehensive benefit plans, programs and policies that help stabilize and improve the well-being of our employees and their families through industry-leading physical health, mental health and financial planning options. During