Southern Company (NYSE:SO) is a super-regional energy company with more than 40,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity in the Southeast. It is one of the largest producers of electricity in the United States. Southern Company supplies energy to a 120,000-square-mile service territory spanning most of Georgia and Alabama, southeastern Mississippi, and the panhandle region of Florida. Southern Company is currently ranked number 165 on the latest FORTUNE 500 listing of the largest U. S. corporations. Southern Company reported earnings in 2005 of $1.59 billion. The company has approximately 26,000 employees.
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Southern Company (NYSE: SO), headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, is currently the eighth largest utility company in the world, the second largest in the U.S. and the largest in the southeastern U.S. It owns and operates over 42,000 megawatts of generation capacity and serves 4.3 million customers in Alabama, Georgia, Florida and Mississippi.
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