ATLANTA –Norrie McKenzie has been named vice president of business development for Southern Company Generation and Energy Marketing, a business unit of Southern Company that works to manage and generate electricity for the company’s retail markets and markets energy in the competitive wholesale supply business.

McKenzie will be responsible for directing the company’s expanding wholesale marketing and business development activities in the Super Southeast. He replaces Ed Day, who was recently promoted to senior vice president of engineering and construction services for Generation and Energy Marketing.

"Norrie brings a wealth of market knowledge from his previous experience in the fuel services area, and that experience will help this critical component of Southern Company grow over the long term. In addition, he has demonstrated superior skills in working closely with the business development team developing and executing long term power supply proposals,” said Paul Bowers, president of Southern Company Generation and Energy Marketing.

McKenzie has 22 years of experience in the natural gas industry. He has led Southern Company’s growing gas procurement operations since 1999. He launched his career with Sonat, a major interstate pipeline company, where he held various positions in onshore and offshore pipeline construction, gas supply procurement, exploration planning, and gas marketing.

McKenzie is a Fort Valley, Georgia native and holds a mechanical engineering degree from Georgia Institute of Technology. He and his wife Lynn have three children. He is a member of Liberty Park Baptist Church in Alabama, where he serves as a Deacon, adult Sunday School teacher, and a children’s ministry director.

With 4 million customers and more than 38,000 megawatts of generating capacity, Atlanta-based Southern Company (NYSE: SO) is the premier super-regional energy company in the Southeast and a leading U.S. producer of electricity. Southern Company owns electric utilities in four states, a growing competitive generation company, an energy services business and a competitive retail natural gas business, as well as fiber optics and wireless communications. Southern Company brands are known for excellent customer service, high reliability and retail electric prices that are 15 percent below the national average. Southern Company has been named two consecutive years No. 1 on Fortune magazine’s “America’s Most Admired Companies” list in the Electric and Gas Utility industry. Southern Company has more than 500,000 shareholders, making its common stock one of the most widely held in the United States. Visit the Southern Company Web site at www.southerncompany.com.