Southern Energy Inc., a unit of Southern Company, has named managers to oversee its newly opened business development offices in Columbus, Ohio, and Eugene, Ore.

Louis R. Jahn will manage the Columbus office, and Lisa Johnson will direct the Eugene office.

Jahn’s responsibilities include marketing power in the Midwest and representing Southern Energy’s clients in rate negotiations with utilities in the region. Johnson’s primary responsibilities involve marketing wholesale energy and tailored energy products and services in the Northwest. Southern Energy’s Northwest office previously was located in Vancouver, Wash.

Before joining Southern Energy in August 1996, Jahn spent 14 years at American Electric Power in Columbus as principal rate consultant and as rate research and design manager. He was responsible for developing and implementing commercial and industrial rates. Jahn holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics from Rutgers University.

Johnson joined Southern Energy in June 1995 as marketing manager for the New England region. Before that, she spent five years with E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Inc. as maintenance supervisor and plant engineer at one of Du Pont’s chemical plants. She also worked for Du Pont in Wilmington, Del., as an energy consultant. Johnson holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Duke University.

In addition to the new Ohio and Oregon offices and its headquarters in Atlanta, Southern Energy operates U.S. business development offices in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, San Francisco, Boston and Concord, N.H.

“Our goal is to become one of the top energy marketing organizations in the nation,” said Tom Boren, president and chief executive officer of Southern Energy. “That’s why we’ve opened new offices in Ohio and Oregon and why we’re opening offices in other key markets across the United States. We plan to be a major player in the rapidly developing power marketing business.”

Southern Energy Inc. develops, builds, owns and operates power production and delivery facilities and provides a broad range of services to utilities and industrial companies around the world. Its Southern Energy Trading and Marketing subsidiary provides power marketing and energy trading services to wholesale and retail customers in North America.

Southern Company (NYSE: SO), the largest producer of electricity in the United States, is the parent firm of Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Gulf Power, Mississippi Power and Savannah Electric. Based in Atlanta, Southern Company supplies electricity in eight countries on four continents and provides energy-related marketing, trading and technical services and wireless telecommunications. Southern Company’s common stock is one of the 20 most widely held corporate stocks in America.

The address of the Ohio office:

Southern Energy Trading and Marketing Inc.

175 South Third Street, Suite 230

Columbus, OH 43215

The address of the Oregon office:

Southern Energy Trading and Marketing Inc.

115 West 8th Avenue, Suite 212

Eugene, OR 97401