Southern Company vice president and treasurer Kim Greene to speak at utilities investment conference

ATLANTA – Kim Greene, Southern Company vice president of finance and treasurer, will speak Wednesday, March 10 at the Banc One Capital Markets Fixed Income Utilities Conference in Chicago.

Greene plans to present an overview of Southern Company’s business strategy and financial performance. Her presentation will be available on a live audio Webcast beginning at 2:30 p.m. EST at http://investor.southerncompany.com/. The presentation will be available for replay at this site for 60 days.

With 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 four years in a row, and in the latest survey tied for the highest score among all service industry companies. 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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