ATLANTA – Southern Company announced today that Kim Greene, senior vice president of finance for Southern Company Services, will also serve as assistant treasurer of Southern Company. Greene’s new role is among several responsibilities that were held by Tommy Chisholm, secretary and assistant treasurer of Southern Company, who retired May 1 after nearly 41 years with the company. Chisholm also served as vice president, associate general counsel and secretary of Southern Company Services.

Greene joined Southern Company in 1991 as a mechanical engineer and has progressed through various areas of responsibility in engineering, strategic planning and finance. Greene earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering science and mechanics from the University of Tennessee, a master’s degree in biomedical engineering from University of Alabama at Birmingham and a master’s in business administration from Samford University.

With more than 4 million customers and nearly 39,000 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 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 ranked the nation’s top energy utility in the American Customer Satisfaction Index five years in a row. 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.

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