ATLANTA – Southern Company CEO David M. Ratcliffe will speak Tuesday, Sept. 28 at the Merrill Lynch Global Power & Gas Leaders Conference in New York.

Ratcliffe plans to present an overview of Southern Company’s business strategy and financial performance. His presentation will be available on a live audio Webcast beginning at 7:45 a.m. EDT at http://investor.southerncompany.com. The presentation will be available for replay at this site for 14 days.

Charles H. Goodman, Southern Company’s senior vice president of research and environmental policy, will participate in a panel discussion at the conference on Wednesday, Sept. 29. The panel discussion will concern the economics of environmental compliance, and will be available on a live audio Webcast beginning at 1 p.m. EDT at http://investor.southerncompany.com. It will be available for replay at this site for 14 days.

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, 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 three consecutive years No. 1 on Fortune magazine’s “America’s Most Admired Companies” list in the Electric and Gas Utility industry. 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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