Southern Company

Facts and Figures

Regulated Utilities

• Alabama Power

• Georgia Power

• Gulf Power

• Mississippi Power

• Southern Nuclear

Competitive Power

• Southern Power

• Southern Generation

Other

• Southern LINC Wireless

• Southern Telecom

• 46,000 MW capacity; 303 generating units

• 2012 sources of electric generation

• 32% coal

• 47% gas

• 16% nuclear

• 5% renewables

• For the past 13 years, Fortune magazine has listed Southern Company as one of the most admired U.S. electric utilities based on:

Southern Company (NYSE: SO) on Fortune 500 List

Corporate Reputation

Quality management

Quality products and services

Innovation

Long-term investment value

Financial soundness

Ability to attract, develop, retain talented people

Responsibility to community and environment

Platt’s Power Company of the Year – 2011

Among Fortune’s “Most Admired” Electric and Gas Utility

Power Company of the Year – 2012

• Only US electric power company with in-house

EPC capability (1,600 employees)

• Perform all EPC activities for Southern’s fossil and

hydro fleet of power plants

• Owner’s engineer for nuclear EPC

• Integrated strategy development, technology

selection, EPC execution and operating fleet O&M

learnings

• Deployed/managed over 72 million construction

man-hours over the last 5 years

• Highlights of construction project results since

2000:‐ 11,200 MW of NGCC at costs 35% below national average*

‐ 3,100 MW of SCR and 3,800 MW of FGD at costs 10% and 18%

below national average** (respectively)

• Natural gas combined cycle (NGCC)− Standardized Southern reference plant designs

− Operating performance metrics lead U.S. industry

* “SCR Cost Construction Survey Results” – 2010 Electric Utility Cost Group (EUCG) survey

**“Scrubber Cost Construction Survey Results” – 2009 Electric Utility Cost Group (EUCG) survey

Industry database: All-in cost in nominal $, F Class 2x1 CCs > 500 MWs or G-class 2x1. Total database of 8500 MWs in AL, FL, LA, MS, SC for 2003COD.

Southern CompanyEngineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) Capability

Southern Company NGCC Reference Plant Design

MHI 501 G 2X1 900 MW

Generation

Power

Delivery

End Use Renewables

• Only U.S. electric power company with internal

R&D organization

• Approximately 150 engineers and scientists in

laboratories and facilities dispersed across

operating assets

• Active collaboration with other power companies;

domestic and international

• Primary goal of research portfolio is to provide

technology options to power operating business

Southern Company R&D